Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for May 04, 2024

At last! Tom admits no one cares about his books! Also, Dongle’s students are now 75+, and he was a long-established teacher at Westview, so he’s 20-25 years older? And he carries around 3 DOZEN book slabs? Captain! Will you tell us how old the Red Dink-skull is? STEVE ROGERS: “No, I don’t think I will.” (pause) “But we had this other thing we gave him, called the Stupid Soldier Serum…”

SUNDAY: More Signings!

’’My publisher will bill you later next week!"

Now END this nonsense!

From what we know of Dinkle, which is likelier? A) He left the mound of “counter copies” because he knows they will never sell; B) He will bill Lillian for all 16! copies dumped; C) Both.

Lillian: “You’ve taken one liberty too many…”

A few?

Dinkle, you do realize that this is Westview rival’s territory.

You still have not paid off the judgment for the damages you and your band inflicted on the high school’s football field.

Into the dumpster!

Clutter your own desk, but leave mine alone!

As long as you giving em on credit who cares eh. Haw haw.

So that little local book store over her house has that big billing counter with computer? She gots sooo much sales eh?

Lillian: “What am I supposed to do with all these?”

Next week: THE BURNINGS

Light ’em up!

Lookit Bingle’s face! He’s having a stroke!

Lillian: (takes three copies and pushes the rest back at him) I hope you don’t mind, I’ll keep these and you keep those. I’m not a warehouse.

P 2: “… actually, I do mind…”

A special four for the price of one sale? To raise a chair an inch and a half? Press leaves?

Take a pill.

Batty shaming people who don’t shop at hardware stores is more riveting than this

“Sorry, but now that you’ve signed them, the publisher won’t take them back.”

time for pizza storys

This guy has a very inflated view of his own importance!

Get rid of this bore!

Really, boring subject!!!

………when all else fails……….try charity!!!!!

I guess those will come in handy if there’s another toilet paper shortage.

A follow up from yesterday, showing that she puts a cat on the cover of her books.

“But, I’ve already got several shelves filled with unsold signed copies of that windbag cartoonist’s “Three O’Clock High” comic strip collections!"