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, 4 months ago
That’s why they are switching over to ipod technology now…no disk….
Fairportfan2 said, 4 months ago
@Varnes
…and lower quality.
RanaRavens said, 4 months ago
I’ve never had a CD skip. Come to a halt and refuse to play, yes, but skipping no.
Notsoastute said, 4 months ago
Faulkner can be a tad wordy, can’t he?
Sort of like I am about nails, if one will do 20 is better.
vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago
the books on cd are now an app for your smartphone.
masterskrain said, 4 months ago
It’s funny, but I have NEVER had a printed book skip!
Remember them?? Made of paper, with words printed on the pages with ink, and sometimes even illustrations? Sound familiar??
gmforde said, 4 months ago
I never had a printed book skip, but I have had books with pages torn, dog eared, and spotted on. Other books had wrinkled pages from exposure to water, and mold growing on them (in a flood). And finally, some had pages turning yellow from sun overexposure. We get what we pay for.
puddleglum1066 said, 4 months ago
@gmforde
I’ve had books with all these damages… but they were all still readable. I’ll take that over a damaged digital file (the data may all be there, but there’s no way you’ll ever access it) any day.
massha said, 4 months ago
@Varnes and a A LOT of hassle. I have about had it with Audible.com that sells you files that can only be open in iTunes. After the newest upgrade, you cannot simply add a new book to the ipod, you need to ’synchronize everything, and it is ridiculous.
@gmforde – can’t read them paper books on long drives. That whole “keep your eyes on the road” thing.
ailurophile17 said, 4 months ago
CD’s: The 8 tracks of the 90’s! Vinyl rules!
Senex said, 4 months ago
You can actually own a book, and do with it what you want. A digital copy, not so much.
orestm said, 4 months ago
@Fairportfan2
Digital music does not have to be lower quality, necessarily, than CDs. The mp3 format does lose some quality in exchange for smaller file size, but there are lossless compression formats as well, or noncompressed formats. Same quality as a CD, but you fit less songs on your ipod.
sonorhC said, 4 months ago
I’ve seen printed books skip. Admittedly, it requires printer error (or editor or author error), rather than abuse of an originally-good copy.
T_Lexi said, 4 months ago
Years ago, Sidney Harris did a laugh-out-loud cartoon of “Hemingway’s Dog Meets Faulkner’s Dog.”
Hemingway’s dog: Arf and arf. A nice woof. Some bows and some wows. Bow wow. A clean woof.
Faulkner’s dog: Woofed woofingly (yet arfing arfarfarf woofs bowwowing) wooves, wowwing too, woofation, arfs, not only bow (wow) but bowing wow wooving.
: ) One of my favorites of all time.
Dave Johnston said, 4 months ago
Is a digital book burning done with magnets?