He has introduced many couples who have married. The latest to benefit from his matchmaking just announced their engagement. Since he was a student at Bowling Green State University 30 years ago, Scherzer has matched up five couples who married. But along with the marital successes, Scherzer also is happy that he has brought together others who have had long-term relationships that fell short of tying the knot. The first of six days of strips appeared yesterday in The Plain Dealer and in newspapers nationwide.
Comics are a very immediate part of the moment.
That is the very special place they have in our culture. In the strip, Cindy, Funky's wife, whose career in TV news has landed her in New York, reports from the scene of the World Trade Center disaster. Cindy already had moved to New York before the attacks, leaving Funky behind to run Montoni's pizza parlor in Westview, a thinly disguised version of Medina. Go to Luigi's in Akron. That's Batiuk's model for Montoni's, right down to the murals.