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[jtur88]

Woodpeckers vs. Jaybirds. It had very strong racial overtones, divided also along partisan political lines, and had been building up for a long time, and the actual warfare was triggered when a black girl was accidentally shot in the streets, in Richmond, Fort Bend County.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Woodpeckers vs. Jaybirds. It had very strong racial overtones, divided also along partisan political lines, and had been building up for a long time, and the actual warfare was triggered when a black girl was accidentally shot in the streets, in Richmond, Fort Bend County.

Good Job jtur88, You got it, and fast too.

Your turn.

Jaybird-Woodpecker War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jaybird-Woodpecker War (1888–89) was a feud between two factions fighting for political control of Fort Bend County, Texas, just west of Houston
One faction, white Democrats opposed to the Reconstruction-imposed government, identified themselves with the Jaybirds. The other faction was known as the Woodpeckers. This group, too, was composed of 'Democrats', but they represented the former Republican Reconstruction government and were elected largely by black voters. The dispute resulted in a number of deaths through murders on both sides including the killing of the local sheriff, Tom Garvey (a Woodpecker), and the violence culminated in the Battle of Richmond, in the county seat of Richmond, Texas, on August 16, 1889. Following this martial law was declared and Governor Lawrence Sullivan Ross dispatched troops from the Houston Light Guards, along with more Texas Rangers, and he himself arrived with the Brenham Light Guards, to negotiate a settlement, resulting in a reorganization of county government under control of the Jaybird faction.

[jtur88]

The connection between Alley Oop and Iraan, Texas is well know, but V T Hamlin, the creator of the comic strip was born and raised in Iowa. But there have been at least two native Texans who created newspaper comic strips that enjoyed national syndication for many years. Can you name them?

[jtur88]

A Hint:

One of them is credited as being a pioneer in the field of real-life serialized action/adventure comic strips, noted for his cartoonish characters drawn against finely detailed backgrounds during WWII. The other started as a sports cartoonist, and his strip is still running after 35 years.

[CptnRn]

Wow, there have been a huge number of Texas comic strip artists. These are probably not the ones you are thinking of, but my favorites are:

Gilbert Shelton, creator of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddie's Cat.


Berkley Breathed, creator of Opus, Steve Dallas and Bloom County.



Sam Hurt, creator of Eye Beam.



Bill Hinds might be one of the two you refer to.

Bill Hinds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bill Hinds (born April 21, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is a sports cartoonist whose work includes the sports comic strips Buzz Beamer, Cleats, and Tank McNamara. He received the National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1986 and their New Media Award for 2000. He received an additional nomination for the New Media Award in 2002.
His work featuring Buzz Beamer appears each month in Sports Illustrated Kids.

Could this be the other one?

Royston Campbell Crane

Roy Crane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Abilene, Texas, Crane grew up in nearby Sweetwater.
World War II rendered the comic-opera settings of Tubbs' adventures frivolous, and the strip took on a new tone. In 1943, an offer from Hearst's King Features Syndicate persuaded Crane to jump ship and create a more realistic comic strip, Buz Sawyer.

http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crane_r/crane_roy_buzzsawyer.jpg (broken link)

[jtur88]

Crane and Hinds were two that I had in mind.
Although Bloom County was fairly successful, it ran only a decade, and Breathed was born in California, although raised in Texas. Shelton's comics were never syndicated in the mainstream media, and ran only in underground publications.
Hurt's comics were even more marginal, having little success outside Austin.

Your turn.

[CptnRn]

Most of the 400 richest Americans (billionaires) who call Texas home made their money in oil, gas or pipelines. A few made their money in more unusual ways, name three of them, how many billions do they have and how did they make their money?

[jtur88]

How about Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner and Alice Walton (who now lives in Texas).

Cuban, computers. 1.2 billion
Wagner, media 2.5
Walton, retail marketing. 21.2

Alice Walton alone (not counting her siblings) has $200 that was once in the pockets of each working American wage earner, that somehow got rung up in a WalMart register and found its way from there into her checking account.

She could personally give every single WalMart employee a Christmas bonus of $1,000 and it would only reduce her wealth by 10%.

[CptnRn]

Originally Posted by jtur88

How about Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner and Alice Walton (who now lives in Texas).

Cuban, computers. 1.2 billion
Wagner, media 2.5
Walton, retail marketing. 21.2

That is good enough since I left it pretty open. The ones I actually had in mind were, according what I think is the latest Forbes report:

The Richest People in America - Forbes

Richest person Alice Walton 23.2 Billion Walmart

John Paul DeJoria 5 billion hair products and tequila

Christopher Goldsbury 1.3 billion salsa, sold Pace Picante to campbell soup in 1996.

[jtur88]

What city in Texas has the largest percentage of residents who were born in Texas?