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Learning to Read

Monday, March 24, 2008 - 12:26 PM

Sheldonista Suzanne C. sent me one of the kindest notes I think I've ever received. As a cartoonist, my job is ultimately to be an entertainer, to temporarily lift people's day from the frustrations and fears we all have. But a note like this put my cartooning in a different light, and really touched me.

"... I can even work your daily strip into my lesson plans. My class LOVES Arthur, and more recently, Oso. One of my girls is a struggling reader, and has a Pug named Whuffle. The girl hates to read; labors with it. But she ALWAYS reads the pug strips, no matter how hard the words-she'll look them all up. She prints them all out and takes them all home and puts them on her fridge. So it isn't just the laughs. Look at what you've done for a girl you've never met. She learns more words from you than she does from me, because she wants to understand the joke. I can't think of anything more important."

I'm not afraid to admit that that actually made me tear up a little bit. Thanks for that note, Suzanne!

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Detailed Strip Info


strip info approved by DaveKellett
Panel Dialogue Location Props
1 GRAMP (surprised): Look at that! Ten-gallon drums of maple syrup!!
ARTHUR
Grocery Store
2 GRAMP: And that's just one pallet of ten-gallon drums in one superstore!
Grocery Store
3 GRAMP (Dismayed): Imagine all the ten-gallon drums in all the superstores in all the world!
Grocery Store
4 GRAMP: Lordy! How much maple syrup you think there is in the world??
ARTHUR: Upwards of ten gallons.
Grocery Store
  • Shopping cart
  • 10 gallon drum of maple syrup

Character Info

ARTHUR
First Appearance
December 10, 2001
Recent Appearances
May 07, 2006
GRAMP
First Appearance
December 01, 2001
Recent Appearances
June 03, 2006


 





 
 

 

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