Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for June 14, 2010

I’d hide, too.

They are too funny.

This cartoon is brilliant.

Run guys, run! This is a great strip Marg.

Head buried in warm sweaty cleavage.

Wish my 8th grade teacher, Miss Swenson, would have been more like that….

Can’t hide forever.

grazer, isn’t it a sad irony? When we finally get old enough and have teachers we want to hug us like that - they don’t do it!

The final gauntlet before summer vacay.

The SHAME! I once called my teacher, “Mommy”.

I’m 57 years old and still have VERY fond memories of Mrs. Jones, 6th grade teacher. Va-Va-Voom.

I had a teacher that had all of us junior high boys drooling. Fortunately she made a career change and became a go go dancer.

I had a teacher who wore short mini-skirts back in the 60’s. She never shaved her legs though.

Since when does pre-school have a summer vacation.

This is a really great cartoon- Thanks Richard!

JanCinVV, Blisshaven IS a pre-school, and not a day-care. I’d imagine keeping a school-like calendar is fairly standard, although perhaps not universal.

One drawback to the genre of kid-centered comic strips is that, in a real-world situation, this would truly be the last day that any of these kids would attend Blisshaven, and Miss Bliss’s “good-byes” would have more finality. In comics like this, “Peanuts”, “Frazz”, “Big Nate”, and so on, summers come and summers go, but every autumn the characters are back in the same classrooms with the same teachers. This is more of a problem for me with the first day of school rather than the last, though, because one strong memory from my own childhood is the annual wondering what my new teacher was going to be like.

The kid’s name is Marcus, not Marco.