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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Varnes said, 5 months ago
??????????!
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
Obviously she doesn’t even like to walk any further then she has to, much less run…
Pacopuddy said, 5 months ago
@Varnes
Double ?????!
wdpeck said, 5 months ago
Chafing – that’s all I’m gonna say.
Alexikakos said, 5 months ago
The words are English………
treesareus said, 5 months ago
“Runner’s high” isn’t worth the damage done to your body by running. Your legs suffer the most and often it isn’t known until you reach old age. Internal organs suffer also. Humans were not built to run like that.
vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago
many people have trouble parallel parking.
AshburnStadium said, 5 months ago
@treesareus
Actually, humans WERE built to run like that (Kenyan long-distance runners are a prime example).
Centuries of disuse, especially culminating with inventions in the 19th through 21st centuries that made running obsolete, have made most humans unfit for such physical exertion.
Ewal Doh said, 5 months ago
@Pacopuddy
I’m with you and Varnes, what’s with the “talk like a surfer”.
Armitage72 said, 5 months ago
Here goes…
American media typically depicts people who are high all of the time as talking like California surfers. “Whoah…bummer dude”, etc.
She is conflating the pain from excessive physical activity with “Runner’s High”.
She is sufficiently sedentary that walking across the school parking lot constitutes excessive physical activity.
Thus, if she were right, every time that she had to walk more than the minimum distance from her car she would get high and start talking like a stoner.
puddleglum1066 said, 5 months ago
Out here in the ‘burbs, the Serious Runners always run on the edge of the highway, even when there’s a perfectly good path ten feet from the road. This leads me to suspect that “runner’s high” is really anoxia high caused by inhaling CO-laden car exhaust while running.
zoidknight said, 5 months ago
@Varnes
She is a really bad driver.
SkyFisher said, 5 months ago
If a joke needs to be explained…it isn’t funny.
rshive said, 5 months ago
I always get a little chuckle when I go to the fitness center and see people driving around in cars looking for a parking place close to the door.
pumaman said, 5 months ago
@treesareus
So what were humans designed to do, ride around in cars?? We evolved to walk and run. On natural surfaces. Until recently, humans didn’t live long enough to wear out their bodies. i’d rather do that than get fat and develop diabetes.