Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 11, 2012

To protect the guilty…

sigh won’t work if it’s the only name withheld

Lio may have become lie-o.

erasure marks are the proof of poor planning.

Just love his expression in 2nd panel:)

Very likely some very disturbing reading. Turn it in with the unsolved police reports otherwise the teacher might not believe it.

I know what you did this summer.

At least two that we can see.Since about 10% of people are left-handed, most classes of 25 would have from 0 to 5 lefties.

Lio, most great authors are happy to have their names known, no matter how disturbing their writings may be….

Cartoonists often draw hands, expressions etc whilst looking in a mirror so the right/left hand statistics will be reversed in the cartoon world.

Wouldn’t worry about withholding your name..the teacher won’t believe you anyhow..

Lio’s mad scientist cackle in the second panel MIGHT be a clue for the teacher (and the rest of the class…….)

I guess he doesn’t want to use his name.

the names were not changed because no one was innocent.

the names were not changed because no one was innocent

Doesn’t matter if he withheld his name. Teachers talk. And read each others’ class rosters. All the other teachers breathed a sigh of relief. And then gave Lio’s teacher condolences and said what they could to prevent her suicide.

If the 10 percent figure is accurate, then the chance of 2 or 3 of three kids being lefties is 2.8 percent—not great but not impossible. But given that the subject here is a lefty, then it becomes the chance of at least one lefty on either side—that’s 19 percent.

Your reputation will probably give it away