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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Limpid Lizard said, 5 months ago
TMI
Jenna Rose said, 5 months ago
That’s one good thing about jobs with uniforms-less clothing expense.
TheSkulker
said, 5 months ago
Welcome! Good to see another aficionado.
A good run but far too short!
capnLaz
said, 5 months ago
Another “Britishism”,
Leo Autodidact said, 5 months ago
@GoldenRoya
Hey, they’re a LOT cheaper than the ones I had to wear for 3 years!
(less painful, too!)
The Old Wolf
said, 5 months ago
The only other person I know who uses “braces” is J.R.R. Tolkien. I had to look it up when I read The Hobbit back in 1965.
Pacopuddy said, 5 months ago
@capnLaz
And all the better for it! Here, ‘suspenders’ are to keep up ladies stockings, and therefore have delightfully naughty connotations that disappear when you think of them in relation to a beer gut . . .
Pacopuddy said, 5 months ago
@The Old Wolf
So now you are multilingual, with a solid grounding in Elvish and British English.
The world is your bivalve of choice!
pschearer
said, 5 months ago
British English is a snick brumby on a pollige frenb.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
George Bernard Shaw once said that “The British and The Americans are two peoples separated by a Common Language”!
And if that doesn’t put a prang in the offside wing of your lorry, I don’t know what will!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago
A week or two tops since i’ve heard the term “braces”. They still use the term here in the Pacific Northwest.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago
The Germans understandably use the terms Americkanisch and Englisch.
Ceeg22
said, 5 months ago
Who calls suspenders ‘braces’?
StoicLion said, 5 months ago
I took this strip as a passing acknowledgement to any reader who wonders why these kids are so friendly with the school janitor. I can’t be the only one.
richardj said, 5 months ago
Jed Clampett calls his suspenders “galouses.”