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{{Short description|American comic strip by Jerry Robinson}}
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'''''True Classroom Flubs and Fluffs''''' was a non-fiction American [[comic strip]] by [[cartoonist]] and [[comic-book]] artist [[Jerry Robinson]]. It was [[Comic strip syndication|syndicated]] from 1965 until 1967<ref>[http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/r/robinson_j_flubs_inv.pdf Library.syr.edu]</ref> in Sunday newspapers, most notably the ''[[New York Sunday News]]'' (later incorporated into the ''[[New York Daily News]]''). It was one of a very small number of syndicated comic features dependent on reader submissions.

The material for this feature was submitted to Robinson by readers,<ref name="Jerry Robinson Papers 1953-2009">[http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/r/robinson_j.htm Jerry Robinson Papers 1953–2009] Syracuse University, November 19, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2010</ref> and it is supposed that each submission was a genuine error perpetrated by a student, either in oral response to a classroom question or in a written assignment.

Each [[Sunday strip|Sunday edition]] (there was never a daily version) consisted of several spot illustrations rather than the sequential panels of a conventional comic strip. Above each drawing was a [[typeset]] caption purporting to contain the text of an authentic classroom error, followed by the name and city of the person who had submitted (not committed) the error. Robinson's drawing would then illustrate the error, sometimes including dialogue balloons for one or more of the characters in the drawing.

A typical item was a caption stating, "The [[transatlantic telegraph cable|transatlantic cable]] was laid by [[W.C. Fields]]", followed by Robinson's drawing of a caricatured W.C. Fields seated in a rowboat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, unspooling an immense cable. Readers were expected to recognize the error, in this case, that the actual supervisor of the transatlantic [[telegraph]] cable was C.W. Field (Cyrus West Field).

At least two compilations were published.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=True+classroom+flubs+%26+fluffs&qt=owc_search Worldcat.org]</ref>

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[[Category:American comic strips]]
[[Category:1965 comics debuts]]
[[Category:1967 comics endings]]
[[Category:Slice of life comics]]
[[Category:Comics set in schools]]
[[Category:Comics about children]]
[[Category:Gag cartoon comics]]
[[Category:Gag-a-day comics]]


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