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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rshive said, 4 months ago
You need just a little wetness in the snow to make good snowballs. The mittens don’t help either.
Varnes said, 4 months ago
Barely enough snow to make a snowball here in SW Michigan since February of last year……11 and a half months without significant snow….Sucks big time..
Varnes said, 4 months ago
BTW, you don’t tug on Superman’s or throw powder snow ball in the wind….. throw it with the wind, maybe…
prrdh said, 4 months ago
In at least one Inuit dialect, ‘powdery snow’ is ‘tlapa’. I don’t know if it’s the same in the other dialects, or in the Yupik languages that along with Inuit make up the Eskimo family of languages.
Comic Minister said, 4 months ago
Now that’s weird.
cliquegge said, 4 months ago
Come on USA gett that snow going – we are coming over from Aus for Snowboarding in Colorado soon.
annieb1012 said, 4 months ago
@cliquegge (boy, that’s tough to type…not at all intuitive!)
Here in Denver we have just enough snow to make footprints; you’d be hard put to scrape up enough to make a snowball. I hear they have lots of snow in the high country, though, where you’re going. Which ski area do you like best for snowboarding?
comicsssfan said, 4 months ago
For snow skiing down a hill fresh powder snow is the best, especially if you are a novice skier.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
Even during the good years of snow in South Texas it was never good enough to make snow men or snow balls.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 4 months ago
re: robert tompsett
After 7 years of decreased temperatures, it’s more likely that we’ll be farming potatoes instead of citrus in southern california. From the baltic freezing over to states of emergency from the cold in south America (with the coffee crop frozen out in some nations), to 5 years of record ice recorded at both poles, it’s not likely to be tropical in the north part of the nation. As far as pythons, I don’t know if anyone’s transplanted the temperate ones or not, but after Florida’s experience with the tropical ones, we don’t need any more invasive species of snake.
cutiepie29 said, 4 months ago
Utah’s got some great skiing this year. A mite bit cold (6 degrees F at the moment) but lots of lovely powder.
comicsssfan said, 4 months ago
@Robert Tompsett
I’m waiting for that.