Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 01, 2022

Now if they can just remember why they started the duel.

Good JOB, y’all!

Frazz: 1, Mrs. Olsen & Caulfield : 0

Obviously neither one wanted to win this one.

27 chapters (as of yesterday) is a joke. “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” has 37 chapters. Some kid reading that one book this summer beat him? The contest started as 1/2 mile == 1 chapter but even 54 chapters for a real tie would be trivial for Caufield.

Caulfield evidently reads a lot anyway, so the contest has not necessarily changed his habit. But Mrs Olsen probably has just begun to get the benefits of the walking. I would say she wins on that count.

Has she been drawn slightly less large to insinuate some weight loss?

Sweet! Some of my favorite teachers a half-century ago had to pretend to be stern for practical reasons, but never quite succeeded in hiding their fundamental niceness.

Nice work with the speech balloons.

Not if it was a book on the summer reading list.