Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for July 01, 2021

Does he spend his time there memorizing the dictionary?

Don’t give in Zane(y), if (Assail)Abel hates you now, he will still hate you if you concede the board seat and will hate you even more when he learns that Katy has been playing with your sword and is having your puppies

P3.5 Ms. WHAMpfler really eases my pain and takes my mind off the situation

Note Gil’s Pat Riley hairstyle (aka “the wet look”) today. Compared with Zane’s “Wild Thing” look. “Who does your hair — Vegematic?”

Thomas Henderson on Terry Bradshaw: “Is so dumb he couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him a C and an A.”

P1, Her Dad loves pie.

P2, Who’s the dude in the Gil Thorp mask?

P3, Is Gil having a spelling bee?

Today’s comic strip is brought to you by the number zero (as in the chances of Zane getting the Library seat) and the letter C. Crikey, a catastrophically confusing conundrum of cataclysmic concerns.

a most ingenious paradox

Conundrum. Marty would ask the bartender if he could have a couple of samples.

Gil’s face in p2 looks like HE’S the one who’s been in a sword fight.

This story is asinine. Asinine – marked by inexcusable failure to exercise intelligence or sound judgement.

Zzzzzzzz…..

Glad Zane has his priorities in order. Everyone would choose a library board seat over a girl any day.

Can I share a secret with you Coach ? In all reality , I’ve been studying to become a contestant on Jeopardy , I know lots of useless information .

If you have the gumption and intelligence to run for a board seat in high school, you’re smart enough to know that Katy won’t be your last gf. Rear view mirror, dude.

“…her Dad needs the seat on the Library Board.” What, this is life or death? Is there some small print in the Dewey Decimal System that grants him 80 grand and a car? Will his proposal to outsource collections of overdue fines to Vito’s Bookiemobiles be approved?

Why is this even relevant? So let the old windbag have his seat, and move on to college, where the libraries are more suited for older students and don’t have little kid sections with books that come with stuffed animals. College will have better girls than Katy too. Win-win…

Why does Mr B “need” the unpaid seat on the Library board?

Gil, on your next visit to the library [snort!], try spending some time browsing up on books in the Dewey decimal section 796.352 – “golf”.

What is today, another stall day? Slow down, WhigRub, we wouldn’t want the school year to end before August now, would we?

Oh ba-rother, “keep the peace”. If Burrito doesn’t get the Board position, he’ll get blowtop mad? Lock Pat Benatar in her room until she goes off to college? Stab Zane with a butter knife?

Zane showing off how he knows the definition to a big boy word. Yeah, he only knows it because he spends a lot of time in the library. Because, what, he sits there for hours reading the dictionary instead of doing homework?

And speaking of homework, your homework is to read today’s Mopped Up Thorp. No knowledge of big boy words is necessary!

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Today for the first time since March 2020 (when I was there, anyway), all the computers at my county’s library were available.