Today's episode of the comic strip Funky Winkerbean (you can view it here) featured a Superman-Supergirl spoof drawn by Jim Mooney, the man who drew Supergirl's strip in Action Comics from 1959 to 1968. Jim, as we noted here, passed away on March 30.
A few days ago, Tom Batiuk — the creator of Funky — issued the following statement…
I was saddened to hear about Jim Mooney's passing. About a year ago, Tony Isabella wrote a sweet little Funky Winkerbean Sunday featuring my characters as Superman and Supergirl. He suggested I contact Jim to actually draw the Superman characters. I did and found him to be one of the nicest and genuine individuals you'd want to encounter. He agreed to do the Sunday and did a wonderful job. The strip will run Sunday April 13th and quite possibly could be Jim's last published work. If so, I feel privileged to have been a small part of it.
It probably was his final work. Nice to note that it was seen by perhaps the largest readership Jim's work ever had, and that it reunited him (more or less) with one of his most famous characters.