Red and Rover by Brian Basset for May 24, 2021

Pretty much how I learned to read before starting school.

Everything I need to know in life, I’ve learned from the comic pages!

There was a time when graphic and explicit used to describe a novel meant it was for adults only. Now, graphic novel is used to describe what we in the 50s and 60s called Jumbo edition comic books. Indeed, some graphic novels are explicit…words are fun aren’t they??

Actually I learned a lot from Stan Lee…

Why not, it’s comical what they are teaching now!

I think Schoolhouse Rock demonstrated the point well.

Been reading comics since as a kid in 40s

About three times a week, my grandad would give me a dime, and I’d ride my bike to the local convenience store where there was a comic book stand. My favorites were bugs bunny and comic classics. I honed up my reading with those and acquired a love for reading that has lasted a lifetime! Helped me get two college degrees, too! LOL!

And once he’s shot down bake up a nice pizza pie.

Well, they did. My buddy once did a book-report on a comic book and got a “C” – the teacher was none the wiser!

DCBakerEsq is going to love this one today!

Great strip. I still learn a lot from the comics. Sometimes there is a reference to a person of interest and I do an internet search to find out the history. In the comments section, many times people make references to which I also have a bit of education as I read the comics. For instance, just above someone mentioned Mayor Fiorello Laguardia.

This is obviously set before an earlier strip which began with Red saying “Yay! The Red Baron shot down Snoopy!” and then explaining to Rover “We Reds have to stick together.”

Rover didn’t need any introduction to Baron Manfred Von Richthofen in that strip.

In a way it already is. Most kids these days are getting their basic education through animated characters or puppets because it helps with their retention.

But most of it is coming individually over a tablet.

The adventures of Snoopy & the Red Barron are precisely why I needed to learn to read.

Maybe reading scores will improve

Red forgot to mention that the Red Baron was killed in action.

Yes, it is possible to learn a lot from comic strips. I only recently learned the difference between a turtle and a tortoise from Sunny Cobb, of “Jump Start”.

You gotta love the comics.

how true. especially those that have a word in it you don’t know. you look it up in the online dictionary and you have learned a word for the day!

My older brother was nearly eight years older than I am and was a life-long HUGE reader. I remember as a very little girl him on the living room floor with the newspaper comics spread out in front of him and the Dalmatian dog that used to visit us from down the street sitting beside him, just like Red and Rover.

Red forgot to mention that the Red Baron was on the side of the then enemy, the Germans. Nor is he the owner of the pizza chain in retirement.

Though Rover probably figured out the first part, as Snoopy would always be fighting for the Red, White and Blue!

That is very true. Reading Peanuts is the reason I’m into classical music now. And thanks to Schroeder, I’ll never forget that Beethoven’s birthday is on December 16th (or thereabouts) :)

And dang, I forget to check the comics early one time and I miss a Peanuts reference :’)

Indeed. That is why my mother calls the funny pages “The Educational Section”.

Funnies and comic books!