'J. Wellington Wimpey' is a character in which comic strip?
J. Wellington Wimpy J. Wellington Wimpy J. Wellington Wimpy, generally referred to as Wimpy, is one of the characters in the long-running comic strip "Popeye", created by E. C. Segar in 1934 and originally called "Thimble Theatre", and in the "Popeye" cartoons based upon the strip. Wimpy was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when "Popeye" was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy became a minor character; Dave Fleischer said that the character in the Segar strip was "too intellectual" to be used in film cartoons. Wimpy did appear in Robert Altman's 1980 live-action musical
Crankshaft (comic strip) Crankshaft (comic strip) Crankshaft is a comic strip about a character by the same name — an elderly, curmudgeonly school bus driver —which debuted on June 8, 1987. Written by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Dan Davis, "Crankshaft" is a spin-off from Batiuk’s comic strip "Funky Winkerbean". Prior to April 2, 2017, the strip was drawn by Chuck Ayers. "Crankshaft" is known for recurring running gags, such as: The continuity of "Crankshaft" is as much as twenty years behind that of "Funky Winkerbean"; strips in both comics in August and September 2011 show a character in the latter strip, a