Benny & Sid Presents Chapter 14 of the Serialized Graphic Novel The Truant Officer Featuring the Mysterious Futoko

People who are content to watch reality television or expend their emotional energy on movies about vampire boy friends are sated with their ignorance and have no appetite of curiosity.

By Glen Bledsoe

(Your City, USA) - My name is Futoko. Most people consider me mysterious, but there is no mystery to school refusal. School is everywhere, every day.

The feast of education is reserved for the learning famished.

People who are content to watch reality television or expend their emotional energy on movies about vampire boy friends are sated with their ignorance and have no appetite of curiosity.

Two questions are important in the School of Futoko: The first question is Why? The second question is What if...?

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Leonardo (Glen L. Bledsoe), Salem-News.com cartoonist, was born and raised in Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelors of Art in Fine Arts and was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for several years. Glen made his home in Oregon in the early 80's where he continues to enjoy the mild climate and lack of sales tax.

He and his wife Karen have published seventeen books together for the school library market. Glen has written extensively on the issues of technology and education for the National Education Association and other Leonardo (Glen L. Bledsoe publications. When he is not creating this unique cartoon series, Glen is either teaching, writing a novel, composing music, or reading.