Question: Manuel Perez worked on the comic strip created by whom late in his career?

Context articles: Ikabod Bubwit
Tom Forman (cartoonist)
Mutt and Jeff
Liō
Eddie Perez (politician)
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee
The Born Loser
Fritz the Cat
Manuel Perez (animator)
Thatababy

Ikabod Bubwit (literally "Ikabod the Small Rodent", "Ikabod the Small Rat", or "Ikabod the Mouse") is one of the most noteworthy and most memorable comic book, comic strip, and cartoon characters created in the 1980s by Nonoy Marcelo, one of the foremost cartoonists in the Philippines.
 Ikabod Bubwit himself is considered as the most famous mouse character created by Marcelo.
 In the comic strip Ikabod, Ikabod Bubwit was the representation of the humorous illustration of the socio-political woes of ordinary Filipinos, and the comic strip itself was used at times by Marcelo in re-imagining and portraying Filipino political figures, including Ferdinand Marcos, Cory Aquino, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
 Ikabod Bubwit was portrayed by Marcelo as an “irreverent mouse” with “funny antics” who lived in Dagalandia (literally "Mouseland" or "Ratland").
 Ikabod’s hometown, Dagalandia, was described as a “recast” of “the Philippines as a nation” with “an apt mirror image for the turbulent setting of the Philippines” during the present and in the past.
 The satirical comic strip about Ikabod Bubwit ran from the late 1970s through 2002.
Tom Forman (May 2, 1936 – May 18, 1996) was an American comic strip cartoonist, co-creator of the classic comic strip "Motley's Crew" along with Ben Templeton.
 His pre-1997 take on the comic strip involved Mike Motley's career as a blue-collar worker, sports, and his friends.
 After Forman died of cancer, the storylines of the comic strip he helped create became more feminine and had "touchy-feely" parts at various points in the storyline.
 They dealt with being forced to say "hi" to the in-laws under embarrassing conditions, attending various weddings, and letting out bottled emotions.
 This new spin on the comic strip alienated many older male viewers and may have led to its retirement on January 1, 2000.
Mutt and Jeff is a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about "two mismatched tinhorns".
 Historians regard "Mutt and Jeff", originally titled "A. Mutt", as the first American newspaper cartoon published as a strip of panels, as opposed to a single panel, making it the first "comic strip" to successfully pioneer that since-common format.
Liō is a daily comic strip created by American artist Mark Tatulli and distributed by the Universal Press Syndicate since May 15, 2006.
 As a pantomime strip, it has an international appeal.
 In 2008, the strip brought Tatulli a National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award.
Eduardo Alberto "Eddie" Perez (born 1957) is an American politician who served as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut from 2001-2010.
 Prior to entering politics, Perez worked as a community organizer.
 Perez served as the first Mayor who was also the CEO of the city and was widely credited with reducing crime, reforming the school system and sparking economic revitalization in the city.
 Perez's investment in educational reform and appointment of new leadership at the Board of Education led to significant increases in high school graduation rates in the city.
The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee is a comic strip created by John Hambrock and distributed by King Features Syndicate.
 It debuted November 12, 2006.
 While this strip is about a ten-year-old boy genius, Edison Lee, it also has aspects of an editorial cartoon since Edison constantly talks about the US political, and economic situation.
 In March 2010, the strip was nominated for the National Cartoonists Society's division award in the category Newspaper Comic Strip, along with "Zits" and "Non Sequitur".
The Born Loser is a newspaper comic strip created by Art Sansom in 1965.
 His son, Chip Sansom, who started assisting on the strip in 1989, is the current artist.
 The strip is distributed by United Features Syndicate.
 The Sansoms won the 1987 National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award and the 1990 Newspaper Comic Strip Award.
Fritz the Cat is a comic strip created by Robert Crumb.
 Set in a "supercity" of anthropomorphic animals, the strip focuses on Fritz, a feline con artist who frequently goes on wild adventures that sometimes involve sexual escapades.
 Crumb began drawing this character in homemade comic books when he was a child.
 Fritz became one of his most famous characters, thanks largely to the motion picture adaptation by Ralph Bakshi.
Manuel 'Manny' Perez (17 June 1914 – 18 January 1981) was a Mexican American animator and animation director whose career spanned 40 years, from the 1940s to the 1980s, and best known for his work on the Warner Bros. animated shorts, working on such cartoons as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
 Later in his career he worked on Fritz the Cat and "The Lord of the Rings".
Thatababy is a daily humor comic strip created by Paul Trap, launched on October 4, 2010 and syndicated by Universal Uclick.
 The central characters are the titular baby and an unnamed Mom and Dad.
 Trap describes "Thatababy" as "a parenting strip through the eyes of the baby."
 Before syndication Trap entered the strip in the Amazon Comic Strip Superstar contest, where it drew praise from judges Lynn Johnston, Garry Trudeau, Mark Tatulli and Scott Hilburn.
 Andrews-McMeel has published three e-book collections: "Thatababy Rocks Out!"
, "Thatababy Geeks Out!"
 and "Thatababy" Gets Arty!