Ryan TomK

American cartoonist who created Tumbleweeds, a comic strip that offered a skewed perspective on life in the Old West. He signed the strip "T.K. Ryan." He was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. Launched in September 1965, the strip was distributed for decades initially by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and later by the King Features Syndicate after its acquisition. Jim Davis, who created Garfield, was Ryans assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, Gnorm Gnat. After a 42-year run, Ryan retired and brought Tumbleweeds to a conclusion on 30 December 2007. Ryan died on 15 March 2019, aged 92. Link to Tumbleweeds Read less