Miss Peach, Are These Your Children?

Mell Lazarus’s Miss Peach, Are These Your Children? launched in 1962 with a single issue from Dial Press, capturing the sharp, deadpan humor of his long-running comic strip. Lazarus wrote and drew this snapshot of a chaotic elementary school classroom, where the beleaguered Miss Peach presides over a cast of sly, mini-adult students. Though the series itself is a one-shot, it stands as a foundational artifact of Lazarus’s beloved, decades-spanning newspaper feature.