Looking for Weatherby

[carbonunit]

I have a faint memory and I can't seem to back it up with research. I seem to remember a comic in the Sunday papers when I was young, in the 70s. It was about a boy and girl who lived in a strange city called, I think, Weatherby, and everything in this comic was about the weather. I remember the town was split in two by the main street, and on one

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[prof_null]

Don't think I ever heard of a cartoon in the papers that had such a surreal and complex storyline which is why I suspect you dreamed it.

Those kind of cartoons (in my memory) were (and still are) always very, very simple. Calvin and Hobbes is about the most surreal to appear in the rag papers and that is still pretty simple.

. . . but not everything is on the net either. Try searching for just "weather comic" perhaps?

[carbonunit]

I've pretty much given up hoping to find a reference online. What I intend to do is go down to the state library and look through the archives of the Sun Herald from 1975 onwards and see if I can locate an example.

There were once very heavy and surreal colour comics in the papers. Have you heard of Little Nemo? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Nemo

[anonymous]

Matt. Check out this guy. He might know something:

http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/

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