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"The Best of Tumbleweeds"
by T.K. Ryan
"For the past 28 years a legion of loyal readers has taken
delight in the hilarious antics of Hildegard Hamhocker, Limpid Lizard and
other outrageous residents of Grimy Gulch, brought to life every day in Tom
K. Ryan's spoof of the Old West, Tumbleweeds. Now die-hard fans and
newcomers alike can enjoy the best installments of the wildly, wickedly, funny popular comic strip in this riotous 140 page collection."Midwest
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A laconic little cowpoke, who'd rather be someplace other than Grimy Gulch
but, not noted for his ambition, and having nowhere better to go, calls the
place home.
He's sort of an average guy, surrounded by a bunch of characters culled from
Central Casting's Oaters div. and various Used-hombre Lots, that make up the
town's citizenry and nearby Poohawk tribe.
Tumbleweed's horse 'Epic', which he acquired from a surplus cavalry store,
is an independent, illtempered, tobacco-chewing (occassionally does cigars)
wreck, that was drummed out of the Army for spitting on the Top sarge.
Though easy-going, the Weed does sometimes flare up in disgust and
indignation, but soon calms down. He's usually content to tumble along where
the winds of human foibles blow him.
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140 Pages, 10 x 8-1/2", 12 color pages, heavy enamel stock cover, Signed by TK Ryan himself!
Thomas K. Ryan Tumbleweeds Creator
A controversial Figure from the beginning, Ryan was
born in either Anderson or Muncie, Indiana...Anderson claiming it was
Muncie...Muncie it was Anderson.
He first felt drawn (note pun) to cartooning at the age of nine; the illness was
to remain with him for the rest of his days.
After a spectacularly lackluster stint at a local high-school, he burst forth,
as from a cocoon, to meet life's challenge.
Three years of University life ensued (Notre Dame U. 1...U. of Cincinnati 2),
when eager and equipped to plumb the frontiers of obscurity, Ryan was spit forth
upon the shores of the Real World.
Setting his master plan in motion, he promptly took upon himself the burden of a
wife and children, then set out to find ways to feed them.
After a series of jobs, too trivial to list here, he landed one in commercial
art, cut a wide swathe through its magic world, and ended up free-lancing.
THEN ILLNESS STRUCK! Clingin doggedly (a pet dog helped see him through these
days) to life, he bedded down with a Zane Grey western novel, fell madly in love
with it, and after a pregnancy of six years, gave birth to TUMBLEWEEDS.
A spirited little rascal, the strip sprouted under the doting eyes of its proud
papa, destined to be fawned upon by dozens. Even the crusty old NCS (National
Cartoonists Soc.) gave it a couple of nods of recognition, and publishers
chronicled it in a number of books.
TUMBLEWEEDS is Ryan's account of the Cowboys-and-indians thing..the untold
story, from suppressed archives, of The Old West..the Epic Saga that inspired
those immortal words of Buffalo Bill:"Go figure".
The Artist still plies his humble trade from a home in Florida, that legendary
land where The Seminoles still dream of achieving full Noles.
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