Benny & Sid presents Chapter 5 of the serialized graphic novel The Truant Officer

By Glen Bledsoe

(Your City, USA) - There are days when not only does your "best" not work, it doesn't even convince yourself. You wonder why you're going through the motions. You wonder why they cut you a check once a month. You wonder why anybody smiles at you and wishes you a good morning.

If every day were like that you'd find something else to do. Something a little more rewarding like vacuuming car interiors at the local car wash or selling Hoovers door-to-door.

Fortunately there are good days. Days when your best is dazzling. Days when you everything you do is magic. Days when you earn your keep and make the Company big money. Days when a good morning wish gives you a boost that propels you through your day.

You take the bad with the good because that's what the adult in you tells you to do. You focus on the good and push the bad to the back of your mind. You do this if you're a truant officer or an elementary school hand sanitizer. Especially if your name is Eddy Burbank.

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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 publications. When he is not creating this unique cartoon series, Glen is either teaching, writing a novel, composing music, or reading.