Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 22, 2011

Petey’s thinking outside the shoe box again.

I think he has a point……

both are true

You’re not creepy, Dil! Just a little sticky.

Petey, I hope you don’t get condemned to the life of a shoe salesman.

Trouble is, Petey, your thinking is too far advanced for the average teacher to comprehend. So it goes: the world does not understand genius.

Petey, there are college professors who’d miss your point. A third-grade teacher isn’t going to get it. Trust me, I croggled a couple of the former in my day.

Petey should have walked away with an A on that one.

I never thought Dill was creepy.

SHOES FOR INDUSTRY!!!!

Dill, the voice of experience…

Origional thinkers, arise!

he was thinking so far outside the box he wound up inside of it. way too subtle for his teacher.

Ah, Dill. Thank you. Just when I was getting down on people.

The art in a fudged assignment is in the selling of it. If Petey had titled the piece “Self-Sabotage”, and tied it to the (possibly apocryphal) etymology involving 15th-Century textile workers throwing their wooden clogs (sabots) into the new automated looms, he could have gotten his Masters thesis out of it.

There’s additional irony in that these shoes themselves are mass-produced, making them a product of the selsame short-sighted, consumerist economic paradigm they’re being used to subvert.

LOL! Your teacher may have a point there, Petey!

I love when Alice defends Petey – go sibling love!

Hey if the simplest answer can be the right one why doesn’t that apply to dioramas? Go Petey GO!

@Fritzoid – I LOVE IT!

I love Petey’s conviction in his hand clasp in panel #2!!

Alice and Dil have a cameo over on the Sherpa strip “Peaniziles” today. I can’t do links with the new system, but you can find it by clicking on the “sherpa” link at top of the page.