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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Alexikakos said, 4 months ago
Human beings live only on Earth. Clearly, the universe was designed by aliens.
Randy_B
said, 4 months ago
“Penguin design” is even less credible than “intelligent design”.
jnik23260 said, 4 months ago
So how do they get in the same place in the Coca – Cola commercials?
Richard S. Russell said, 4 months ago
@jnik23260
I have it on good authority that Coke now owns Santa.
Blackwolff9
said, 4 months ago
@jnik23260
The Polar Express,of course.
Leo Autodidact said, 4 months ago
@Richard S. Russell
OF COURSE Coke owns Santa!
Why do you think he wears Red and White?
(Seriously, take a look at really OLD Color images, you’ll see quite a bit of GREEN.)
masterskrain said, 4 months ago
@Alexikakos
Sure the Universe was designed by aliens! That’s why Humans are confined to one place!
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of
the galaxy, lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 93 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life-forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea!”
I mean, if it was your Universe, would you invite in a dog that wasn’t housebroken??
“The surest sign that there is intelligent life in the Universe is the fact that NO ONE has attempted to contact us!”
Varnes said, 4 months ago
masterskrain, I love that last line……BTW, what is that quote from? Douglas Adams?
ntheodorakis said, 4 months ago
Leopard seals and orcas will eat penguins, so they don’t lack for predators even in Antarctica.
Varnes said, 4 months ago
Why did Eastern Europe get all the hard consonants, and the South Pacific all the vowels..?
prrdh said, 4 months ago
@Randy_B
Especially since if you had polar bears in Antarctica they might leave the penguins alone and continue with their preferred food of seals…which do eat penguins.
TheWildSow said, 4 months ago
@Varnes
We’ve noticed that when we play Words with Friends! All consonants is the Welsh or Eastern Europe rack; all vowels is the Hawaiian (or Old MacDonald!) rack :-)
twypsi said, 4 months ago
@Varnes
That line is from “Calvin & Hobbes” Calvin and Hobbes were out one evening looking up at the sky filled with stars.
rshive said, 4 months ago
@prrdh
Ah, but how do we know that? Maybe some polar bear, as he’s munching on his seal, is thinking “Damm, I could have had a penguin.”
magicwalnut said, 4 months ago
@masterskrain
Masterskrain, I really like your take on the origin of the planet! It makes the most sense of anything I’ve read today!