# Frazz is brilliant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2008, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047 "2008-02-10T09:39:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/1 "2008-02-10T09:39:28Z")
If you’re not reading [this comic,](http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/archive/) you should be. If you’re not viewing on Sunday, use the archive functions. You should find a nicely literary pun. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/2 "2008-02-10T17:51:10Z")
Jef Mallett outdid himself in [today’s strip](http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/archive/frazz-20080210.html). ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/3 "2008-02-10T18:10:17Z")
[QUOTE=cmkeller] Jef Mallett outdid himself in [today’s strip](http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/archive/frazz-20080210.html). [/QUOTE] Hey, I get that. 'Cause that “miles to go” business is from a poem by that Frost guy! Cool. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/4 "2008-02-10T20:16:20Z")
Literate comic strips are such a rarity these days. I love Frazz. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/5 "2008-02-10T20:31:42Z")
Whose thread this is I think [I know](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=455080). 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.) ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/6 "2008-02-10T22:16:08Z")
My favorite is [this](http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/archive/frazz-20080127.html) comic which is a tribute to [Charles Adams](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/chapters/1203-1st-davis.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/7 "2008-02-11T17:53:03Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/8 "2008-02-11T19:24:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/9 "2008-02-11T20:03:29Z")
[QUOTE=Thing Fish] 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! [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/10 "2008-02-12T14:31:54Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. pat ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frazz-is-brilliant/437047/11 "2008-02-12T14:58:38Z")
Frazz has too much of a work ethic to be Calvin grown up.