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   Roger4336 said, 5 months ago

   To repeat and update a comment from late yesterday:

   Jeff Millar died of cancer on November 30, age 70. He wrote the strip, and Bill Hinds illustrated it. Now Hinds will take both roles. The strip has been going since 1974.
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   sarah413 said, 5 months ago

   Love doth make fools of us all.
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   Linguist said, 5 months ago

   I love it ! A Defcon 1 Alert ? Bill, you gave me my first real laugh of the day.
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   timbob2313 said, 5 months ago

   I have a collection of the Tank strips in a book I bought in the early 80s covering most of the strips from the begining, back when Tank was just getting started as a sports reporter. I first discovered the strip in the 80s when my then local newpaper started carrying it.
   It has been very good for more than 30 years, I hope that Bill Hinds keeps up the high quality
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   Linguist said, 5 months ago

   @timbob2313

   Back then, my local newspaper carried Tank in the sports section. Some days, that was the best thing in there !
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   Fairportfan2 said, 5 months ago

   @Linguist

   Especially if you were from Atlanta.
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   Atlanta sportscaster Harmon Wages could have been the prototype for Tank…
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   …except Tank never dated a future network anchor (Deborah Norville) nor lost his job after busted for cocaine possession…
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   BobBlumenfeld said, 5 months ago

   @Roger4336

   I re-read yesterday’s posts, and I didn’t see anything announcing that Bill would pick up the writing chores. Did I miss something?
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   Roger4336 said, 5 months ago

   @BobBlumenfeld

   That was the “update” mentioned. I saw it on Wikipedia, but that is not a guarantee of authenticity.
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   JiminNYC said, 5 months ago

   @Roger4336

   Quite frankly, most people who use Wikipedia wouldn’t know authenticity if they stepped in it.
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    rvonluchen said, 5 months ago

    I googled Jeff Millar obituary. Here is supposed to be a link to the Washington Post obit.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jeff-millar-creator-of-tank-mcnamara-comic-strip-dies-at-70/2012/12/10/a42efeec-42f2-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html
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    Bill Hinds said, 5 months ago

    Here’s a nice story about Jeff: http://tinyurl.com/JM-comic-riffs

    I’ve been writing the strip for a couple of months now.

    It’s amazing to me how long Jeff was able to write funny stuff while feeling so bad.
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    Bill Hinds said, 5 months ago

    I guess I should be clear. The daily strips I’ve written began appearing the second week in October. And the first Sunday appeared Nov 4.
    I’m trying to stay true to Jeff’s sense of humor.
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    Linguist said, 5 months ago

    And you’re doing a great job ! Hang in there Bill. While it may seem difficult to stay true to Jeff’s sense of humor, you have made the transition seamlessly .
    As I said earlier, you gave me my first real laugh out loud of the day.
    May you and Tank continue for many more years providing those laughs and insights.
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    braindead08 said, 5 months ago

    @timbob2313

    I have always thought that Tank was the most underrated strip around.
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    One of my favorite sunday strips was one of a huge motor home where deer hunters could shoot deer with guns pre-aimed at a baited trap without missing a play of a satellite broadcast football game.
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    132bpm said, 5 months ago

    Sorry for the loss of Jeff Millar. His family , friends and readers will surely miss him.
    I am sure that he went knowing that Tank will be in good hands with Bill Hinds writing and illustrating.
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