Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 18, 2024

High-quality hilarious stuff ?

LOVE that kid.

I must have been an unusual kid. I could never stand the stress of leaving a book report until the last moment, let alone enjoy a weekend knowing I had to write a full book report on Sunday evening before heading to bed.

Cliff’s Notes.

Back in the day there was a Comic named Classics Illustrated. That is how I did my book report on the Iliad.

[singing, as I once did for audiences long ago] “I should start writing now, but if I start writing now when I’m not really rested, it could upset my thinking which is not good at all.”

I was exactly like Caulfield

That’s me and my Algebra homework, procrastinating until 11:15 pm.

I wrote a book report on Ben Hur in 7th grade while home with the flu. I got an A. I presented the same report orally in 8th, and got an A. I turned it in in several more grades, getting an A each time. It was literally the only book report I wrote in junior and senior high.

It’s very Frazz to assume that somebody didn’t do their work over the weekend because of too much activity. Now, maybe that’s true for Caulfield, but it’s equally likely he spent it reading other books.