Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 21, 2019

You’re supposed to put the leaf pile on the lawn, not the sidewalk.

At first I thought he was recovering from having to lug around a backpack full of huge textbooks.

My sister and used to jump in leaf piles when we lived in Grosse Pointe just before my Dad lit them on fire. It was legal then, so you know that was a LONG time ago.

That depends on the size of the pile, m’boy.

I DARE you to watch this without smiling…

https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1183834863788425216

Talk aboot “They’ll say it wasn’t them”…, today is Federal Election day in Canada. Get out and vote! May the least flawed individual win.

You did it wrong

Need to toughen up there boy, play outside more often, run, jump, play tag etc. you might actually like jumping in those BIG pile-o-leaves.

We use to launch ourselves from a swing set into a leaf pile, but it was a Big one. We lived in a wooded area.

With experience comes enlightenment.

How hard you land depends a whole lot on how high up you fell from.

Blame Sir Isaac Newton. Those pesky laws of motion he invented sure do inhibit kids’ fun.

Around here any sizable pile of raked leaves is gonna have at least a dozen stinkbugs in it.

Sure that’s a kid and not a middle-aged midget?

It must not have been much of a leaf pile, kid.

Need to get your landing technique polished up.

I much prefer the swoosh-swoosh-swoosh of walking along a leafy path (or sidewalk). And you don’t have to worry about pine-cones, rocks, or punji-sticks.

That’s some mighty original syntax.

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All I was trying to do was have some fun with animating the slow process of getting up after a hard fall, letting the body language tell the story instead of sprinkling stars around the sore parts. But it looks like I was trying to riff on that classic evolution graphic, where the (usually) silhouettes go from fish to fish on land to varmint to primate to Homo erectus. With our without some editing or changes to suit someone’s joke or cleverness or purpose. A fun surprise. Doesn’t really add to or detract from the gag, but I like it.

I enjoy the happy accidents. Even when all they are is curious.