CLEVELAND, Ohio — “Crankshaft” is no stranger to serious. Tom Batiuk’s humorous and pithy comic strip has covered subjects such as adult illiteracy, Alzheimer’s disease and school violence in extended ...
The storyline focuses on Lillian, the local bookstore owner and next-door neighbor of the comic strip’s protagonist, cantankerous school bus driver Ed Crankshaft. The Westview school board has banned ...