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

Why would a band director have total ownership of the actual real property of the school?

Where’s Crankshaft?

That must have been some bit of financial genius, selling oil rights and getting so little money that they had to keep selling band turkeys every boring year.

“We had haters long before the Internet came along.” What Batiuk has been saying about his readership for years finally makes it into print.

A bit of serious fraud involved as Dinkle had no legal rights to sell any portion of school property.

“Why do you keep teasing storylines with a giant book cover behind you, almost as if this was an actual book you were planning to sell at OMAUGAWD, but one assumes KSU Press refused to print?” “It’s anybody’s guess!” (man runs into panel 3, yells) “OH LORD I’M POOR NOW PLEASE BUY A BOOK” (HAIRY DINKLE shoves him aside) “Not NOW, Tom!”

Hmmm. I may take my first break from Crankshaft until this idiot is gone.

The more I see of this guy, the less I like him.

its probably his last day how many book line jokes can you do? now if only mary worth could end that story with that big bore keith !!!!

Hey! Look! Something happened: they both changed their names to ‘OMEA’!

It’s been a long week.

Where’s Crankshaft?

Wait didn’t the coach dye, and this guy play for the arch rivals?

Suuure. Suuuure. But is also very easy to dismiss critics as haters after the internet is cames along. Beecause it called writing!

Why isn’t Harry selling band turkeys along with his book? He’s missing a great opportunity. I do see CD’s of the St. Spires Choir for sale, however.

“We had haters long before the internet came along.” Um, what? People/groups didn’t have haters pre-internet? Does that sentence make any sense?

And every single person that approaches him already knows all his stories somehow. How did they all read his book already? However much he paid to get a booth at this exhibit, that’s how much he’ll be in the hole when it ends, since nobody is buying the book.

Where’s Crankshaft?

Oh, where’s The Pizza Box Monster too, while we’re at it.

I dislike this guy more and more. Can we be done with this story line now PLEASE?

I’m sensing that Dinkle is converting some of the anti-snarkers. Wait until they meet Les!

Ocean front property in Arizona!!!!!!

Well this is weird. The strip has been up for at least 16 hours, at least a half dozen people have asked, “Where’s Crankshaft?”, and absolutely nobody so far has given the traditional, “He doesn’t have to be in the strip every day.” We also haven’t gotten a, “You don’t have to read the strip if you don’t like it” cliché.

So he sold the field to an oil company. Where did the band perform? And for whom?

Between Lillian, Les and Dinky, if you took all of the self-righteous smugness Batty has depicted at these book fairs, you could destroy the world!

The football team is only mad at him because they did not think of it first.

The artwork is deteriorating badly. Is M. Davis not well?