Can't let today end without waving goodbye to Tumbleweeds, the long-running newspaper strip which made its final appearance in today's funny pages. The western-themed feature made its debut in 1965 and now its creator, Tom K. Ryan, is retiring and taking his characters with him. I don't recall it ever appearing in any Los Angeles newspapers. I discovered it in the seventies via its paperback reprints, of which there have been more than twenty volumes over the years. It was a pretty funny little strip and once you got enchanted with Ryan's townspeople and Indians, impossible to resist. A lot of folks are going to miss it.