Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for September 03, 2024

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    wooleys2001  2 months ago

    Not sure about Fahrenheit 451, but school boards and parents have a responsibility to protect the children.

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    Bill Thompson  2 months ago

    Les, if you have to ask, you’ll never understand. Are you sure you read it?

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    sbenton7684  2 months ago

    Yes… but not from books.

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    eromlig  2 months ago

    Maybe it will teach them how hot to make their next book oven.

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    Julius Marold Premium Member 2 months ago

    Last panel is spot on.

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    j_m_kuehl  2 months ago

    But at least in class, a book is not read in a vacuum. It’s read where the Adult themes can be discussed, and the broader meaning can be explored as to what’s good, what’s bad, and to better understand life and it’s choices.

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    billsplut  2 months ago

    Hey Les, Martin Shkreli wants his facial expression back.

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    Blu Bunny  2 months ago

    The book details how Ed gets his grills hotter than that temperature.

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    nosirrom  2 months ago

    When you have a book that basically says that book burning is bad you have to ban it so children don’t question why you’re burning books.

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    Gent  2 months ago

    If only smug smirking was banned.

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    French Persons Premium Member 2 months ago

    Of course, Batty must make sure that EVERYONE knows that Cayla is MRS. MOORE (got it??)

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    ksu71  2 months ago

    Meanwhile back in Centerville, Kesterman is putting up another mailbox. Ed looks on thinking I’ll get this one tomorrow.

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    ComicsDad5  2 months ago

    So, high school libraries should stock The Story of O if that’s what the kids want?

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    SquidGamerGal  2 months ago

    There shouldn’t even be a need for a active shooter drill in the first place!!

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    Brian Perler Premium Member 2 months ago

    Except that the issue isn’t that THE KIDS want to read Fahrenheit 451… it’s that LES wants them to read it. (And, let’s face it, if there’s anything that will make them NOT want to read it, it’s to make it assigned reading.)

    But, as with everything else in the Batiukverse, it’s all about what Best Actress Academy Award Winner Les Moore wants, everyone else gets to fall in line or suffer the consequences. (Where the consequences are having to look at that smug jerk’s face.)

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    dvdwoods17  2 months ago

    Fahrenheit 451 is mild when compared to some of the transgender material getting placed in some elementary schools. Parents need to be aware of what their kids are seeing.

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    Cabbage Jack  2 months ago

    This is just a sad sack of virtue signaling. There’s a reason Winkerbean got cancelled and it’ll be the same reason Crankshaft is getting cancelled. No one wants to read this boring crap.

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    eced52  2 months ago

    Amen

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    puddleglum1066  2 months ago

    Just for everybody’s information, the response to a google query about whether F451 is banned in Ohio schools:

    As of January 2024, no books have been outright banned in Ohio, though book challenges have been increasing.

    So… did Les, CauCayla and the gang join retired Flunky down in Florida? Or what?

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    puddleglum1066  2 months ago

    Notice what we are seeing: characters talking about stuff that might or might not happen, repeating things they ought to know by now.

    Notice what we are not seeing: how Les teaches F451, what the students learn from his teaching, how they react to Bradbury’s complex critique of media succession, what (if anything) they learn and apply to their lives.

    Yep, peak Batiuk all right.

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    WilliamVollmer  2 months ago

    Ms. Moore’s thought does seem to be logical. But try selling it to the DeSantis crowd.

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    hudie48  2 months ago

    This seems to me more a “political” comic than a “comic” comic. Where oh where is Crank the Man?

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    Lynnjav  2 months ago

    If you’re not sure about a book, read it first. Then try to figure out what you’re protecting the children from – is it knowledge? Or will it harm them. Is it another point of view? Or will it stifle them. Will they learn from it? Or will they run from it. Children need to expand their minds and read more. not less.

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    MICHAEL GREEN Premium Member 2 months ago

    Perhaps the Trial should be mandatory reading- that would be Kafkaesque

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    lemonbaskt  2 months ago

    the comic free range did a banned book joke today and im sure hes not gonna do them for a month straight like batiuk intends to do

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 2 months ago

    I wonder where Crankshaft is………….

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    ed111db  2 months ago

    I read “Tropic of Cancer” because it was banned when I was in middle school (Age in excess of 75). My home library had multiple “banned” books when my Son was in middle and high school, most of them were so badly written that he refused to read them once he started. I, as you can see, do not support banning books, If more people read “Mein Kamph” by A. Hitler and “The Prince” by N. Machiavelli there would be more understanding of some of the BS being spouted on both sides.

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    stoogeswoman Premium Member 2 months ago

    Will this strip ever ban Les??

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    ncorgbl  2 months ago

    Banned and Burning books is the act of fascism. It’s still another way of someone trying to tell others how they should live, what they should read, how they treat their own body, when they can’t manage their own lives. Censorship should not be a government function. That is a parent’s responsibility. If you don’t want to parent your kids you shouldn’t have had any, rather than getting someone else to do it for you. Mind your own business.

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    tcayer  2 months ago

    Aaannndd…. Crankshaft has now become Funky Winkerbean full time.

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    Mopman  2 months ago

    You know a character made a potential Pulitzer Prize winning observation that nobody else has ever made, when the other person gives the famous smirk.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  2 months ago

    “What do you mean by reading a book? Suppose you learn something?”

    “Hailstone The Dictator”—YOU NATZY SPY—1940

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  2 months ago

    In 1959, a kiddie book was banned in Alabama becasue it showed a White Rabbit and a Black rabbit being friends….

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    James Lindley Premium Member 2 months ago

    I didn’t read Fahrenheit 451 when I was in high school. It may have been one of the books I ordered from Scholastic Book Club but that they were sold out of. A coworker loaned me the book recently, so now I’m finally reading it.

    Ironic that a book on burning books should be on the list of banned books.

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    Surly Squirrel Premium Member 2 months ago

    I wish I had Les’s job. He shows up at the school whenever he has free time away from his passion projects.

    Student #1: “Say, is that Mr. Moore?”

    Student #2: “Why yes it is. That’s rare. He must not be working on a book or movie about his dead wife.”

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    Teto85 Premium Member 2 months ago

    Excellent point.

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    Stephen M Dallas  2 months ago

    Give it up, Tom. Mary Worth will win a Pulitzer for “Dogs are great” before you will.

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    be ware of eve hill  2 months ago

    (Best Actress Award Winner) Les Moore rudely turns his back on his wife while she is speaking, to present a horrifyingly prodigious and annoying smirk.

    Classic (Best Actress Award Winner) Les Moore!

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    be ware of eve hill  2 months ago

    When Ed Crankshaft finally returns to the strip, I wonder he’ll get a nameplate to help the readers identify him. Will Dan Davis remember how to draw him?

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    Ragnar Premium Member 2 months ago

    We don’t have active shooter drills in our schools; we don’t need them. The School Board declared schools to be gun-free zones.

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    metagalaxy1970  2 months ago

    I read that back in high school. It’s a VERY good book to read. And no, it wasn’t on the banned book list in the 80’s.

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    KenDHoward1  2 months ago

    Out of the mouth’s of wise young people …

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    oakie817  2 months ago

    amen

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    pamela welch Premium Member 2 months ago

    Good point Mrs. Moore ♥

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    Strawberry King  2 months ago

    If it weren’t for the Columbine shooting, schools probably wouldn’t have active shooter drills.

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