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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Chicago Insurgent said, 9 months ago
nice baby shower
surfstuff55 said, 9 months ago
I saw 2 shooting stars!
The Old Wolf
said, 9 months ago
Nothing here. :(
Tacopielvr said, 9 months ago
He might get it if he stays out in the evening.
Alice Hart said, 9 months ago
That was so cool! I wen out until twelve and saw about fifteen! Three of them were huge, you could actually see the burning.
Ray-Bear said, 9 months ago
Overcast last night—should be clear tonight!
lancemay said, 9 months ago
coach lacker
Sportymonk said, 9 months ago
Bust in NC, cloud cover, maybe tonight.
bigpuma said, 9 months ago
Frazz is brilliant! Hacker’s a dolt! Hooray for smart people! This strip is so strange. Just … astoundingly odd. I will never understand how the insensitive know-it-all could be thought of as both cool and amusing.
AStarofDestiny said, 9 months ago
@lancemay
Awww…love your spider!
hippogriff said, 9 months ago
The paranoids in this town have it lit up so brightly you are lucky to see second magnitude stars. I haven’t seen the Milky
Way in years.
Konabill said, 9 months ago
@bigpuma
Hey sour puss, some things are funny. Enjoy what you can and ignore the rest.
bigpuma said, 9 months ago
@Konabill
Enjoy the glorification of obnoxious smart alecks? That’s funny? What’s funny about a jerk toying with an idiot? What kind of person kicks back with a glass of wine with his girl and revels in the memory of humiliating a fool? Frazz and his apologists are way too pleased with themselves.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 9 months ago
@bigpuma
Who is being insensitive here? Not Frazz, the coach didn’t think to ask what a “Perseid Shower” is. Frazz wasn’t making fun of him really, Coach Hacker did it all himself.
Bill Claypool said, 9 months ago
The sad thing is that there is often a great joke or context for the rest of the comic on the title panel which is never included here.