Paul Chaffee is a good friend. He was the editor of the Saginaw, Mich., News when I was in the early days of my pre-Frazz career. I was a staff artist for the Flint Journal, another paper in the same chain, just down I-75. I didn’t know him too well then. He must not have known me too well, either, because he somehow thought I might be graphics-editor material at The News and invited me up there for an interview.
I was better dressed for the interview than Paul was. Not because I had better taste, but because I wasn’t the one who had spilled coffee down the front of his dress shirt and suit coat and had to conduct the interview in a t-shirt. I thought it was kind of charming, but the important thing is, Paul thought it was just another thing that happens. This, I thought, is an editor I could work for. I didn’t end up working for him, not directly (it timed out such that he was competing with my opportunity to set up and run the art department for the expanding capital bureau that served the whole 8-paper chain). But I could have.
Years later, Paul invited me back to the Saginaw News to watch the very first episode of Frazz roll off the presses in real time. I don’t know what he was wearing that time. Probably the same big huge smile I was.
I should call Paul. We’re due for a coffee. And I think he’s gotten better at handling it.
sandpiper over 6 years ago
What we don’t notice after a while, they always see
Al Nala over 6 years ago
Have a friend. When we first met, he said that if no-one spilled coffee on him, he’d do it himself.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
There was a fellow, he wasn’t observant, just heavily biased against the creator of this strip.
Its that mustache that aids the dribble factor.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Frazz
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Paul Chaffee is a good friend. He was the editor of the Saginaw, Mich., News when I was in the early days of my pre-Frazz career. I was a staff artist for the Flint Journal, another paper in the same chain, just down I-75. I didn’t know him too well then. He must not have known me too well, either, because he somehow thought I might be graphics-editor material at The News and invited me up there for an interview.
I was better dressed for the interview than Paul was. Not because I had better taste, but because I wasn’t the one who had spilled coffee down the front of his dress shirt and suit coat and had to conduct the interview in a t-shirt. I thought it was kind of charming, but the important thing is, Paul thought it was just another thing that happens. This, I thought, is an editor I could work for. I didn’t end up working for him, not directly (it timed out such that he was competing with my opportunity to set up and run the art department for the expanding capital bureau that served the whole 8-paper chain). But I could have.
Years later, Paul invited me back to the Saginaw News to watch the very first episode of Frazz roll off the presses in real time. I don’t know what he was wearing that time. Probably the same big huge smile I was.
I should call Paul. We’re due for a coffee. And I think he’s gotten better at handling it.
Stephen Gilberg over 6 years ago
I saw this coming from the first panel.
lagoulou over 6 years ago
@SCHERZO ….check out yesterday…you sure change your opinions fast enough if someone calls you on them. I think you like to hear yourself talk!