Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 01, 2020

Depending on whether she’s arrogant or apologetic about it, you could go with either Penny Pendragon or Penny Penitent.

You will know in about 10 years…

I’m guessing this is a swipe at Mrs. Olsen. She could become an antihero like the Sub-Mariner and Wolverine.

Interesting point there, Mr. Sandman.

I have mixed feelings about Ori Lazaro… does that make it more like literature?

The kid seems to be trying to decide whether Mrs. Olsen is helping or hurting her by correcting and encouraging her writing. That’s as it should be. She won’t know until much later in life.

Any teacher is both a referee and a coach. It isn’t easy but it is the nature of teaching. If one doesn’t combine both qualities, it might time to think of other professions.

Q: How many grammar Nazis does it take to correct a Facebook post?

A: Too

First thing I noticed was the “student” had her hair up in a bun reminiscent of Mrs. Olsen; Perhaps some realizations just entered her… nah. It’s just a cartoon.

As a long ago English major, oh, too true! I’m convinced that a lot of ‘great’ authors are considered such for lack of competition. Fenimore Cooper, for instance: no one else was publishing novels in America at that point. Or George Meredith: anyone who churns out his ten—twenty?—pages a day, come Hell or high water or a rough Channel crossing? He reads like it, too; although I do remember that there was a (yes, A: one!) amusing sentence in ‘The Egoist.’ Ugh!

Orson Scott Card wrote some stories about people who had small super abilities, like being able to make people yawn.

I think “The Corrector” would be a fine name for that superhero or -villain.

It’s been done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_the_Purple_Crayon

Can’t decide whether to do comic or literature? That must be how the graphic novel was invented.

I’ve read some “great literature”. Nowadays, I seem to prefer “a good story”. I suppose there might be something out there that’s both, but off hand I can’t think of anything except Shakespeare…

One of my favorite Cary Grant movies is Sylvia Scarlet. He did such a good job of making you wonderful job of making you wonder whether he’d turn out to be a hero or a rat that I still can’t remember which after at least two viewings (and refuse to spoil the next one by looking it up).