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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solarrhino said, 12 months ago
I hate doing laps when little kids are in the pool — all that noise and splashing. The only good thing is that water does seem a bit warmer somehow…
simpsonfan2 said, 12 months ago
“Why are you throwing ME out? Everybody pees in the pool.”
“Not from the diving board!”
RHJunior said, 12 months ago
East River: FALSE, DAMMIT.
The east river has been clean for DECADES. They even did a news segment on TV just a couple years back where the TV reporter donned a swimsuit and dove right in.
cutiepie29 said, 12 months ago
Yeah, they do, but they don’t do much more than keep in solid wastes. Eeewwww!
Jenn said, 12 months ago
Wasn’t there a scientific study released to the media recently that swimmers in public pools are basically swimming in other peoples urine? Not cool.
AshburnStadium said, 12 months ago
When I went to junior high school in the 1970s, a group of special-needs students also used the pool. One day, one of them had defecated in the deep end. The teachers tried to make our class swim in that pool without removing the turd from 11 feet of water. We revolted en masse!
AshburnStadium said, 12 months ago
My family had a sign saying, “Welcome to our ‘ool’. Notice that there is no ‘p’ in it – please keep it that way!”
kroykali said, 12 months ago
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That question makes me Wonder if you’re really a Woman.
kroykali said, 12 months ago
@AshburnStadium
I have news for you, Ashburn. It’s not just special-needs kids that do that. I learned not to go to the YMCA pool during family swims, because there were too many toddler accidents. Every time a kid did a Number 2, it was “Everyone out of the pool”, and it was closed for hours.
readerlady
said, 12 months ago
My swimming in the ’70’s was at the local lake. They told us the brown debris in the water was “cedar”.
Davepostmp said, 12 months ago
@RHJunior
I like a good fairy tale.
Davepostmp said, 12 months ago
@kroykali
Remember the Snickers bar in the pool in Caddyshack.
Jerry Carlson said, 12 months ago
We don’t swim in your toillet – Please don’t pee in our pool
Tacopielvr said, 12 months ago
@kroykali
Wonder Woman is most likely a man. WW Bio is very similar to another’s Bio of a cross dressing male who I believe has several Go Comic ID’s. While I have have no problem with a person’s sexual preferences, WW, CD & what ever else he goes by tends to make offensive and tasteless comments on a G rated site for readers of all ages. I adore women, so as far as I’m concerned he portrays (by posting as female) in a poor fashion with his comments..
Emily theStrange said, 12 months ago
those ‘special suits’ keep poop in. They are not absorbant at all. I recall my husband’s face when he watched our daughter pee in our backyard and he said ‘those don’t keep in pee’ and of course, I responded that no, if they were absorbant, they’d just absorb the pool water. He then recalled unhappily the water babies course we’d done with our daughter.