Funny Times (newspaper) Funny Times (newspaper) Funny Times (FT) is an American humor newspaper founded in 1985, and still published as of 2018, by the wife and husband team of Susan Wolpert and Raymond Lesser, who were inspired by The Comic News of Santa Cruz, California, "a monthly journal of progressive editorial cartoons" founded in 1984 by Thom Zajac. FT's political content is often subversive and has a progressive/liberal perspective. In 1998, Sandee Beyerle wandered by the offices of Funny Times and stepped inside simply because she wanted to get out of the rain. Really. That led to a job as gopher, secretary
The Duckberg Times The Duckberg Times The Duckberg Times was a free, alternative newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from January 1985 through 1990. A typical issue featured between 16 and 32 tabloid size pages, although some issues were printed in broadsheet format shortly before its demise. The typical print run was 10,000 copies per issue. The newspaper evolved from featuring all-original cartoons and comics to covering the local alternative music scene and reprinting articles and other content that originally had appeared in small press publications from around the United States. One of the founding editors of The Duckberg Times was John K. Snyder