Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 29, 2014

He’s “Frankenstein’s Monster”. The critter never was given a human name – and in the book ti goes off to live in the far reaches of the North Pole, or was it the South Pole? Basically, the dark, cold and forbidding Unknown.

Jack London’s To Build a Firehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Build_a_Fire

Yeah. I think it’s a London book, too.

Hmmmmm….the novel “Top of the World” by Hans Rüesch" (Movie :“The savage Innocents”, starring Anthony Quinn) perhaps?

Plus the song “Quinn the Eskimo” performed by Manfred Mann …..?

It’s either “To Build a Fire” by Jack London or “Ungava” by RM Ballantyne. Most likely London.

I’m sure the answer will be given in the most obnoxious, self congratulatory way possible.

It’s “The Iceman Cometh”.

I called it yesterday!

Yes I do. I’m being held hostage by a comic loving thug. “Read me dis one, lady, or I’ll fill ya fulla lead.”

“To Build a Fire”, Jack London. Absolutely. No name, no imagination, set in Alaska.

Called it yesterday! To Build a Fire!

The Call of the Wild.

Iceman Cometh. Ice cube yesterday, “who the man” today…. I think we have out answer, folks.

I agree that it is Jack London’s ‘To Build a Fire’.

nanook of the north

I still say it’s “Frosty the Snowman”.

If it’s “To build a Fire”, where’s the unfortunate dog?

I think it’s “The Iceman Cometh” too.

“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy.

Good ol’ JL. I thought it was The Iceman Cometh yesterday, but today’s strip totally gives it away as To Build a Fire. I thought Jef did another Jack London book a few years back? Or, maybe it was wishful thinking ; ). Can never get enough Jack.

Sexy Eskimo cuite? There is a costume for that, no kidding.

I’m thinking it’s “The Road”

a) it has to be ‘classical literature’ so nothing recent would qualify, and b) in ‘To Build a Fire’ – the protagonist is only referred to as ‘the man’.

like a kid in elementary school would have read any of the books talked about.

I love the strip at this time of year (okay, I love it year round, but especially around Halloween) because I always find something I’ve never read before or rediscover something I’ve not read in years.

As I recall, the protagonist in “To Build a Fire” is simply called “The man.”

Huh? Toady? I barely comment here. Anyway, you are so defensive and annoyed by my opinion, I question your self esteem. You should think about that.

You didn’t answer his question. That’s because you don’t know the answer, either.

My guess is also Jack London’s “To Build a Fire.”