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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Richard S. Russell said, 11 months ago
Medical science has proven that every 60 minutes of exercise you get early in life can extend your lifespan another hour. So what you’re doing, essentially, is trading in an hour when you’re young and vigorous for one when you’re old, feeble, and sick. You’d BETTER like what you’re doing.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago
The catch is that, at least with moderate exercise, it has health benefits the rest of the time, such as keeping one’s heart in shape.
Pacopuddy said, 11 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
Nothing is worth extend your life so you spend an extra hour sitting in your own wee in an Old People’s Home.
Varnes said, 11 months ago
Sure is nice sitting here not doing much of anything…..think I’ll do it some more…
Arianne said, 11 months ago
And here I thought “Eric the Red” was a reference to hair color.
luvcmx said, 11 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
Another oxymoron raises its ugly head: “Medical science”. Almost everything that was gospel (according to the doctors) has been proven wrong. Why don’t we go back to bleeding people to get rid of the “bad humours” that are causing their physical problems. Toward the end of his life Pasteur recanted his germ theory.
8ball said, 11 months ago
If you don’t like what medical science has proven, just wait a couple of hours.
griffon88 said, 11 months ago
@luvcmx
As long as you’re talking about the things doctors ‘knew’ before medicine became an actual science. As for Pasteur, citation please?
KaminoNeko said, 11 months ago
Interesting that Frazz refers to his ‘viking ancestors’. Frazier is a Scottish name, so I wonder at what point the Scots got mixed with the Scandinavians in his tree.
Chicago Insurgent said, 11 months ago
Newfoundland, Iceland, Greenland. Best name to name your country. I thought Newfoundland was a joke name. But that is now a actual country…
comics for fun said, 11 months ago
@Chicago Insurgent
Actually, Newfoundland is a province in Canada, not a country.
kroykali said, 11 months ago
I haven’t had any tan lines in years.
Cantankerous Coot said, 11 months ago
Health is over rated!
Leo Autodidact said, 11 months ago
@KaminoNeko
It was the Scandanavians who ‘mixed’ with the Scots (and everyone else, for that matter) by Raiding, Raping, and otherwise “Having a Good Time” along every coastline in Europe. (Plus most of the major Rivers)
NebulousRikulau
said, 11 months ago
@KaminoNeko
Constantly.
The Vikings, from the root word ‘vik’, wanderer, invaded everywhere.