Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 11, 2019

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    The Legend of Brandon Sawyer  over 5 years ago

    I take it that this is not his choosing of sweater. This is his mom being mom.

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    Nachikethass  over 5 years ago

    Maybe it was for his home in Idaho, where he killed himself?

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    asrialfeeple  over 5 years ago

    Sweaterville

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    Ontman  over 5 years ago

    He was in France in the winter during WWII.

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    llong65  over 5 years ago

    from the look of the hair cut he’s a new kid he’s talking to.

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    jskmichals  over 5 years ago

    Committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  over 5 years ago

    New student — named Yertle.

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    Pipe Tobacco Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I have wanted a “Hemingway” sweater of that ilk, myself. :)

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    Ninette  over 5 years ago

    After scrolling through many, many images I found just one picture of Hemingway wearing that type of sweater.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 5 years ago

    Frazz16 hrs ·

    Every so often — every year, I’m guessing, multiplied by however many bars and taverns supposedly frequented in Key West — there is a big Ernest Hemingway lookalike contest. And just as de rigueur as the beard, hair and scowl is the bulky fisherman’s sweater famously worn in the iconic portrait by Yousuf Karsh. And every time I see photos from any such contest, I think of how incongruous that sweater seems in Key West.

    Hemingway lived all over, not just in Key West. You can easily picture that sweater on him when he lived in Idaho, or when he was in Northern Michigan. Maybe. I’ve lived in kinda sorta Northern Michigan, and that sweater seems a bit much. Surely we can assume he didn’t dress like that in Key West. And he didn’t.

    I checked, and Karsh took that photo in … Cuba. Havana. Once more, I learn something and end up knowing less.

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