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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Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago
Probably not very long. If you are good with a graphics program, maybe 10 minutes.
M2MM said, 6 months ago
He deserves extra marks for creativity. :)
wecatsgocomics said, 6 months ago
Caulfield needs to be in an advanced class. This ho-hum stuff is holding him back.
jessegooddoggy said, 6 months ago
@wecatsgocomics
But he is keeping Mrs. Olsen alive!!
vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago
extreme couponing…
brickster said, 6 months ago
A really good coupon is priceless.
JackiAnne said, 6 months ago
Took me about an hour to fake a couple of football tickets for my boss.
zoidknight said, 6 months ago
@wecatsgocomics
But that is the idea. He must be held back until he is as dumb as the rest.
Rugeirn Drienborough said, 6 months ago
Frazz is so frazzled by this he’s stopped making sense.
bevgreyjones said, 6 months ago
@Rugeirn Drienborough
Makes perfect sense to me. It probably took as long, if not longer, to make the coupons as it would have to do the worksheet. I’m with Caulfield, though, in that they are a lot more fun to work with.
Varnes said, 6 months ago
The fact it took him longer than doing the work, misses the point. It’s still cool putting something over on her….
CAtransplant said, 6 months ago
Ah, yes, the irresistible tangents. But for them, everybody would know only the same things as everybody else, and at the same times of their lives.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
The corporate turn in our school system is bad for business, education and humans in general.
comicsssfan said, 6 months ago
@Debbie Jordan
I wish there would have been painting in the meager art classes taught by an unhappy, disenfranchised teacher in my public school. Instead it consisted of drawing with our own pencils on sheets of cheap paper torn off of a roll of newspaper stock. But the basketball teams had numerous pro-type leather basketballs, even for the practices. Do you know that pro basketball recently tried to go to cheaper, rubber ball? Not us, the commitment we had to sports!
janinabarnes said, 6 months ago
@Night-Gaunt49
I read an article describing how current educational practice came from back when public education was first coming in vogue. The goal was to train up young industrialists, and the method was to mimic the assembly line. Actually, I think educational practice is based on mimicking college professors. We’re too afraid of failure to try anything that might succeed better.