Frazz by Jef Mallett follows the adventures of an unexpected role model: an elementary-school janitor who's also a Renaissance man. While he's sweeping the hall, he's whistling Beethoven. Or Lyle Lovett. He paints the woodwork in the classrooms; he paints a Da Vinci on the cafeteria wall. He's a trusted authority figure who is every kid's buddy. He took the janitor's job while he was a struggling songwriter, and when he finally sold a hit song, he decided to stay on at school. Frazz appears in 200 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune and Detroit News. "A few years back, I wrote and illustrated a children's book," says Mallett. "When I was traveling around reading it at school assemblies, I noticed that often, the most respected, best-liked grown-up in the building was the janitor. And I thought, 'Hmm, there's a comic strip in that.'" Often praised for its intelligent wit, gentle spirit and effortless diversity, Frazz won a Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council in 2003 and 2005 for excellence in communicating values and ethics.
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annieb1012 said, about 23 hours ago
Sounds like normal kid stuff to me.
Night-Gaunt49 said, about 23 hours ago
Grasshoppers can grow so big. And they will bite you to if they can. You thought he was talking about “letting go a quiet” something else didn’t you?
jnik23260 said, about 22 hours ago
Lesson to Principal: You can either get it fast, or get it right!
Gator007 said, about 21 hours ago
A fart?
Varnes said, about 20 hours ago
SBDs are trouble, but there is nothing like one that sounds like somebody stepped on a duck in the middle of silent reading time…
AshburnStadium said, about 19 hours ago
Barking crickets?
AshburnStadium said, about 19 hours ago
@Varnes
What does a fart and a submarine have in common?
Both can be silent but deadly!
olfart said, about 18 hours ago
The devil is in the details.
emjaycee said, about 16 hours ago
@AshburnStadium
At home and camps (summer and family) , we ‘discretely’ referred to flatus, accidental or otherwise, as the mating call of the “Pennsylvania Barking Spider”. Odd for the PA reference, since we lived and camped in upstate New York.
jessegooddoggy said, about 16 hours ago
Grasshoppers bite? Each summer, my garden is full of grasshoppers with red legs? (if I am remembering correctly), but I never see any damage from them. They must be eating something…I need to look it up.
Tirasmol
said, about 15 hours ago
hah!
ananomoose said, about 14 hours ago
Those old metal desks, that had only one side under the seat open where you kept your books, made wonderful amplifiers for an intestinal drum roll.
exoticdoc2 said, about 14 hours ago
I guess that’s better than gas warfare.
annieb1012 said, about 13 hours ago
I’m not sure about “bite,” but the big grasshoppers we used to catch when I was a kid in Delaware would sure pinch! And if you held one too long, he would release a drop of disgusting-looking dark liquid onto your hand.
lightenup
said, about 12 hours ago
Some kids got in trouble recently for releasing 10,000 crickets at school for a senior prank. They think it’s “so unfair!” LOL