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, 6 months ago
2 blocks from my house is Lakepoint Commons. Not on a lake, nowhere near a point, doesn’t have a common area, nothing remotely like that in the historical record anywhere near there.
runar
said, 6 months ago
And there was a wall at Wall Street.
These days, most streets are named after the wife and kids of the contractor who built the houses that all look alike.
Editer63 said, 6 months ago
They built a shopping center in a town where I used to live and called it Pine Ridge. That region has no native pine trees. They didn’t even bother to name it for the trees they cut down.
AshburnStadium said, 6 months ago
I always understood that many suburbs’ streets were named for the trees that were cut down. I’ve lived on Sycamore Ave., Locust Rd. and even Stump Rd.!
TheWildSow said, 6 months ago
There’s one near here called Hunters Point. Gee, I hope no hunters are pointing at ME!
CasualObserver said, 6 months ago
The names are like epitaphs written on areas we have killed. Ultimately we’ll pay for the loss of sustainable resources…our bad.
YatInExile
said, 6 months ago
Canal Street in New Orleans replaced a canal that was never built.
DutchUncle said, 6 months ago
“The suburbs are where they cut down all the trees and then name streets after them!” – attributed to Alfred E. Neuman (fictional emblematic character of Mad Magazine)
USAFMSGT said, 6 months ago
That would be “Forestwood Lumber Arbor” actually.
wwh85cp said, 6 months ago
I work in a Maryland suburb where the streets of the adjacent subdivision are named after elements of the dairy farm it replaced. Reserve Champion Drive, Grand Champion Drive, Barnside Place…
Condos, townhomes, and some actual houses. No bull(s), however.
wagnertinatlanta said, 6 months ago
I remember seeing a new subdivision in Colorado Springs named something like Pleasant Valley. I looked it up on a USGS survey map. It was originally called Rattlesnake Gulch.
hippogriff said, 6 months ago
I live on Cedar. The nearest cedar (Cedrus liban) is some 35 miles away straight line. There is a redcedar next door but they are really junipers. Cedars are not native to the western hemisphere.
comicsssfan said, 6 months ago
Canal street in New York may have become a canal again in the last storm.
Tacopielvr said, 6 months ago
Anything is better than every third new street, subdivision, public park or facility named after some rich middle eastern family of developers who rips up beautiful untouched land in my city/area in the name of greed. That developer/family is starting to be the tail that wags the dog in my @ss-backwards city.
comicsssfan said, 6 months ago
Atlantic magazine had an article about out of the way McMansion subdivisions becoming the slums of the future when gas gets a lot higher.