Alumni Gazette
A Seriously ‘Big Question’
Readers of the “Bo Nanas” comic strip might have missed it, but
the marriage proposal that took place last summer between two characters in
the syndicated strip was more than an inside joke for Jocelyn
Swigger ’02E (DMA).
Swigger, who last fall began a faculty appointment at Gettysburg College in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, found herself answering the “big question”
when her boyfriend, John Kovaleski, the artist behind “Bo Nanas,”
used the July 6 installment to ask her to marry him.
To keep his intentions secret, Kovaleski pretended that his editor at the
Washington Post Writers Group, which distributes the strip, found a typo in
one of the panels and Kovaleski needed Swigger to read the installment online
at Comics.com.
At the computer, Kovaleski kneeled next to Swigger while she navigated to
the site, where she saw the cartoon versions of her and Kovaleski that sometime
appear in the strip. On the screen, Kovaleski’s character was also kneeling
while he asked, “Will you marry me?”
“When I saw that, we both started crying, I think,” Swigger says.
The answer was, “Yes.”
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