CSotD: It’s getting hard to be sarcastic
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The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee, with a commentary on the state of education.
Edison Lee is a solid little strip that will celebrate five years of syndication in November, and John Hambrock has managed over that time to develop a good sense of the ridiculous, after a period in the early days of being too direct in having young Edison express opinions. Most strips take a little time to find their legs, but, as discussed yesterday, they're more apt to start strong and then descend into a rut than to grow substantially better as they come into focus.
Earlier this month, I let loose with a pretty good rant on the public's refusal to properly fund education which I will link rather than repeat. But I think we cross a line when we go from asking kids to bring their own Kleenex to asking them to bring a ream of copy paper, and I'm not that comfortable with asking them to buy their own calculators.
When I was in Maine, schools were issuing laptops to students, which is an important way to help bridge the digital divide, but I don't think that's happening in very many places and that, in the current mood, we're more likely to see today's Edison Lee come true than the Maine initiative spread.
Frankly, it's getting harder and harder to make a joke about the gulf between what we demand of our schools and what we're willing to invest in them without accidentally hitting on something that is actually happening somewhere.
Which, having said all there is to say on the topic of educational funding, leaves me plenty of space to suggest that, if you are anywhere near Kenosha, Wisconsin, between September 14 and 16, you need to go to the Kenosha Festival of Cartooning that John and his wife, Anne, have put together.
It's a small but highly select group of presenters: Pooch Cafe's Paul Gilligan, Between Friends' Sandra Bell Lundy, Prickly City and Chicago Tribune editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis, Mad Magazines' Tom Richmond and animator Tom Bancroft, best known for his work with Disney on Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Fantasia 2000.
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