April 3, 2008
A Comic-Strip Appeal Doubles Donations to an Annual Fund
When Lisa, a character in Tom Batiuk's nationally syndicated comic strip Funky Winkerbean, discovered she had breast cancer last year, she and her husband visited the Gathering Place, a nonprofit group in Beachwood, Ohio, that helps cancer patients and their loved ones.
Benjamin Light, the Gathering Place's development director, was inspired by the exposure and positive response the comic strip generated from newspaper readers and proposed that the charity create a comic of its
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