I know school discipline was a bit over the top when I was in school (we had to salute when we walked past our nun teachers and the rod was not always spared) but I’d like to think calling your teacher a savage can still get you in some measure of trouble in today’s schools.
When I was a little kid, about the age of the kids in the strip, I could be, well, weird. One of my issues was an obsession with symmetry. If I scratched an itch on my right arm, I’d have to scratch my left arm in exactly the same spot to even things out. Which never quite worked, since it hadn’t itched in the first place, so I’d have to go back and make some adjustment scratches on the right arm, and … this could go on all day. Or until I did something like feel a pop in my left ankle and then really drive myself bonkers trying to move my right ankle around until it popped. I don’t know if I was lucky or not to have lived my share of those years in the late 1960s, before kids like me were a little more routinely medicated, but I do like the way I turned out, and I’m not sure I’d be doing the same thing for a living if I’d gotten “help.”
Even if I did get such help, and still grow up to draw comics, I might not have written a strip like today’s, and I love this kind of strip, where it’s all about adjusting symmetry unnecessarily. But, I think, to greater effect. At least without quite so many skin abrasions.
Frazz by Jef Mallett for Jan 22, 2018 | GoComics.com
eromlig over 6 years ago
Love it! Great job, Jef! ~ Daniel in Seattle
Masterskrain Premium Member over 6 years ago
Gotcha!!
cervelo over 6 years ago
I know school discipline was a bit over the top when I was in school (we had to salute when we walked past our nun teachers and the rod was not always spared) but I’d like to think calling your teacher a savage can still get you in some measure of trouble in today’s schools.
jessegooddog over 6 years ago
LOVE IT!!
sandpiper over 6 years ago
In teaching there are lots of days like that
mauser7 over 6 years ago
Early or late Van Gogh?? The art world makes a distinction because of the great shift in style.
mauser7 over 6 years ago
Early or late Van Gogh?? The art world makes a distinction because of the great shift in style.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Frazz9 hrs ·
When I was a little kid, about the age of the kids in the strip, I could be, well, weird. One of my issues was an obsession with symmetry. If I scratched an itch on my right arm, I’d have to scratch my left arm in exactly the same spot to even things out. Which never quite worked, since it hadn’t itched in the first place, so I’d have to go back and make some adjustment scratches on the right arm, and … this could go on all day. Or until I did something like feel a pop in my left ankle and then really drive myself bonkers trying to move my right ankle around until it popped. I don’t know if I was lucky or not to have lived my share of those years in the late 1960s, before kids like me were a little more routinely medicated, but I do like the way I turned out, and I’m not sure I’d be doing the same thing for a living if I’d gotten “help.”
Even if I did get such help, and still grow up to draw comics, I might not have written a strip like today’s, and I love this kind of strip, where it’s all about adjusting symmetry unnecessarily. But, I think, to greater effect. At least without quite so many skin abrasions.
Frazz by Jef Mallett for Jan 22, 2018 | GoComics.com
Daeder over 6 years ago
What she doesn’t think about is “Catcher in the Rye”.
BEN 10 over 6 years ago
She reminds me of my 2nd grade teacher. Old and crabby. Love this comic.