If you’re not reading this comic, you should be. If you’re not viewing on Sunday, use the archive functions. You should find a nicely literary pun.
Jef Mallett outdid himself in today’s strip.
Hey, I get that. 'Cause that “miles to go” business is from a poem by that Frost guy! Cool.
Literate comic strips are such a rarity these days. I love Frazz.
Whose thread this is I think I know.
This thread, it has more replies, though.
Two threads diverged on a board, and I-
I took the one with more replies.
Though there really is no difference.
(And I had to stick two poems together, too.)
My favorite is this comic which is a tribute to Charles Adams
I showed the “Frost warning” strip yesterday to my Dad, who is visiting from a town where they don’t get Frazz. He immediately noticed that Frazz looks exactly like a grown-up Calvin! And acts much like what I’d expect, too. I can’t believe I never noticed that before!
I have been reading “Frazz” for a long time now, and I firmly believe that it’s one of the most underappreciated comic strips in the papers today. I would even venture to say that it’s right up there with “Calvin and Hobbes” in its gentle humor, sarcasm, literateness, and refusal to dumb itself down for the masses. If there were any justice in the world, there would be fewer newspapers running crud like “Marmaduke” and more running “Frazz.”
If you like the strips, I highly suggest picking up the two paperback collections.
Someone on this board introduced me to Frazz in a “what comics to you read online” thread. He made the same point (that he looks like a grown-up Calvin and acts that way too), which was why I checked it out.
There was some whimsical speculation that Frazz was written by Bill Watterson under a different name. Although, looking it up, there also seems to be some (I think stupid) criticism of the strip accusing the creator of stealing Calvin and just making him older.
I like that there are similarities.That makes it fun! I don’t read it every day. But, when I do I enjoy it.
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Frazz has too much of a work ethic to be Calvin grown up.