“even in a decade” [SECO]
As any parent knows, the days are long, but the years are short. And so it is with the children of Baker Street Elementary.
It has now been 10 years since this Charles Schulz-inspired Sherlockian comic strip made its debut from the minds of Joe Fay, Rusty Mason, and Steve Mason. Here at I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere, we recognized the innocence and joy of Baker Street Elementary as a throwback to the Sunday comics of yore, and have featured this strip every other Sunday on this site for the past eight years (along with some related commentary).
Think of what a decade of Holmes and Watson together gave us: the two first met in early 1881 and their exploits included A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, the entire collection of The Adventures and The Memoirs, ending only with "death" of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls with Professor Moriarty.
Those tales meant we would encounter a clever female foil for Sherlock Holmes, a client with a severed digit, a scam targeted at a man with red hair, a snake as a murder weapon, short hair and a blue dress as a requirement for employment, a disappearing horse, a murderous pygmy, an travel-worn American set on vengeance, and a number of past acquaintances whose reappearance meant death.
This was just the beginning of a 40-year journey. Will Baker Street Elementary have the same longevity? Only time will tell.
Meanwhile, it doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon...
Baker Street Elementary follows the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, as they and their friends work through the issues of elementary school in Victorian London. An archive of all previous episodes can be viewed at www.bakerstreetelementary.org.
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