Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 02, 2021

Which cartoon strip is that?

Happy Anniversary, Jef! It’s amazing you’ve been able to keep it up at that level for so long.

Pearls before swine. No, I just felt like saying “pearls before swine”.

Happy Anniversary!

So you’re paying us (a compliment) so we won’t complain about the self-congratulation?

Hmm.

Well… OK.

Caulfield is just a smidgen too sharp here. Maybe just a behind-the-hand chortle would do.

Happy anniversary!

Happy Anniversary, Jef!

Congrats on the big 2-0, Jef!

Just for info — Halloween is a corruption of All Hallows Eve, All Hallows being the old rendition of All Saints.

Pearls Before Swine is 20 years old?

Scherzo will have commentary on this I believe!

Yuck, yuck, yuck. Do he mean Frazz?

Congratulations on 20 years. Frazz is the arc in sarcasm. Cheers.

So Get Fuzzy has been around 20 years! Congrats Darby!

Congratulations on 20 years of having the smartest readers and commenters! :P

That’s ridiculous. Pogo is way older than 20!

I love the way y’all are trying to insult Frazz by suggesting other comic strips. I guess “smartest” doesn’t apply to everybody

I remember Frazz as a new strip in the Rocky Mountain News

That has been a long time ago

Are the smart readers the ones who believe Frazz is the adult Calvin? (And Miss Plainwell is Susie Derkins, and Mrs. Olsen is Mrs. Wormwood?)

Yes, I know, officially it’s not true, but it’s true in my head.

Great comic. Look forward to reading it a every day. Thanks for all the hard work and keeping it fresh. Happy Twentieth.

Happy 20th, Jef! I love this comic!

Happy Anniversary! You know what a great gift would be? A published compilation of the first 20 years!

Happy 20th… milestones like that are always worth noting. Frazz has been on my rotation for only a couple of years, but it’s pretty timeless in it’s humor, and I do enjoy diving the archives on occasion.

I’d venture to guess this one… Congrats Mr Mallett

Being 19-1 is nothing to be ashamed of.

Happy Birthday! Thank you for raising the bar!

Happy anniversary! Frazz is one of the best comics out there! Keep up the great work Jef!

Happy 20th anniversary Jef and Frazz…keep ’em coming!

Halloween is a mish-mash of All Holy’s Eve (Hallow’s Eve old style); modern would be All Saints Eve before All Saints Day (for those saints not otherwise recognized with their own day). I would say it means we have too many saints to recognize, or maybe we are setting the bar for sainthood too low.

Happy Birthday, Frazz! Long may you continue: I like a strip that frequently sends me to the dictionary!

Who is going to lift the cat’s tail if not the cat himself?

Congratulations!

Aaaaccckkk!

You started this strip when you were 12 ??! Keep going!

Please! It’s “Mr. Frazier.”

April 2, 2001

Felicitations!

Congratulations Jef. The strip is fun, it raises interesting issues and as someone pointed out in the recent past, the comments section is as entertaining as the strip.

Foxtrot?

Happy birthday Frazz!

“Mr. Frazier”…I had no idea until right now. Happy 20th!

The comic may be 20, but Caulfield is still in 3rd grade. We love it that way!

Affurmation of my more gooder smartness! Yay!

Arlo and Janis is 20???

Wow, 20? Seems like it was like yesterday… Congratulations Jeff!

Same birthday as me!! Glad Frazz and I share a birthday! :)

Cheap grace? I’ll take it! Congratulations!

I thought around here every day was All-Full-of-Himself Day. (And just to out-pompous you, the compound adjective needs hyphens.)

Happy anniversary, Jef.

Hey this is MY 82nd birthday. FRAZZ has been a gift to me.

Congratulations, Jeff, and thanks for entertaining us for all these years.

Happy birthday/anniversary! Thanks for the awesome strip. Love it!

Happy 20th, Jef!!!!

Congratulations, Jef. Your comic is truly one of the best out there. I’d put it on par with Calvin & Hobbes, Pearls Before Swine, 9 Chickweed Lane, and, on a good day, aaaaaaalmost as good as Garfield. :)

Congrats on 20 years! The strip is aging well.

Gee, I thought Ziggy was older than that!

way to hit me over the head with a Mallett there Jeff

… and a mere ten days later, he hits it out of the park. Mallett likes to acknowledge Watterson, but I really think the spirit of Walt Kelly whispers to him.

Happy birthday to Frazz, Caulfield (he sure doesn’t look 20!), Miss Plainwell, Mrs. Olsen, Mr. Burke, Mr. Spaetzle, and (apologies for pulling a Gilligan’s Island) all the rest.

Congratulations, Mr. Mallett, and long may you enjoy doing the cartoon!

Grats. Well done

Not so – The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers will be 53 next month.

Thank you for the fun, and learning. On the down side, since it’s been twenty years, I am no longer callipygian.

Happy Anniversary Jef! I still see Calvin and Susie Derkins in Frazz and Jane Plainwell.

Congrats and thanks for the laughs. I don’t remember if I met Frazz in the Flint Journal or the Detroit Free Press, but I’ve been with you from the start. (the Assenmachers lived just around the corner from us).

Congrats Jef!! And thanks for all the smiles.

Congratulations! I have enjoyed the last 10 and hope to continue with you in the future

Congratulations from a reader (enjoyer) in Huntington Woods.

I enjoy your strip, it’s low-key humor is unique. I hope you enjoy doing it enough to keep drawing it another TWENTY years.

Thanks for 20 years of pleasure! Looking forward to 20+ more.

Congratulations and happy anniversary, and just think, next year Frazz can legally have a beer to celebrate!

Actually, Dilbert was launched over 30 years ago!

Congratulations, Jef Mallett, on 20 years of delightful discovery!

Glad you are here, and I’ve enjoyed 20 years worth!

Happy Anniversary!!

You are wrong. That strip turned 70 years and 6 months today!

Happy Anniversary!!! May you have many more!

This makes Jeff Mallett a narcissist.

Congratulations on your 20th!!

Caulfield should also know it’s World Autism Day.

Wha? Who? Hmm…

Yeah, but don’t you just love this little kid (Caulfield’s his name, I believe)?

Congrats!!!I came in late and everybody’s already said everything else

Happy 20th Birthday of a wonderful comic strip! Thanks for all your good work, good drawing, goodness! May you be blessed abundantly!

HIPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Jef Mallet’s Blog Log 4/2/2001-2021

Frazz · Twenty years ago today, I watched Frazz episode #1 roll off the presses at the Saginaw News. It was a proud moment until it was a horrifying one, when I looked at the actual strip on the actual still-damp newsprint and realized that the lettering was way too small. It had looked fine on its own in the materials I had submitted to the syndicate, but shrunk to newspaper-publication size on a page full of strips that had already figured out the right ratio, it was, well, readable. But it wasn’t inviting. I celebrated my debut by going home and scrambling to redo six weeks worth of upcoming strips, and I’ve been wondering ever since if I’m screwing up one thing or another.

But that’s comics. You’re never quite sure you’re getting it right, never quite sure you belong there, and if you find a problem, it’s too late to do anything about it directly because you’re seeing it weeks after you drew it and weeks before your corrected approach will appear. That’s the nature of daily deadlines and lead times.

Because you can essentially do everything yourself, drawing a strip is a great job for a control freak. But because of the production pace, it’s a horrible job for a micromanager. I don’t know where that puts me for suitability, but apparently it’s a job that works for a guy who’s better at looking forward than dwelling on what’s behind. Or someone who’s too good at dwelling on what’s in front of him and needs a deadline to say, “it’s DONE, dammit. Turn it in.” [continued below]

It must be the perfect job for someone who is willing to accept being kinda sorta good at a few things but not really good at any one, and willing to grind it out and never quit. I suppose it’s no surprise that I was pulled into triathlon’s gravity for so long. Which I got into after quitting bike racing. Until I moved to where the cycling sucks and quit triathlon to go all in on running, then almost immediately quit running to go all in on marathon swimming, where my skills seem to have maxed out at a disappointing level, and so thanks to that and the pandemic, I have quit quitting running, although I won’t quit swimming. All in the time I have not quit drawing Frazz. Maybe I should quit being so smug about not quitting. At least I chose the right thing not to quit.

And that will do it for today’s Frogg, because I have to quit and get some strips turned in. When they’re DONE, dammit.

I need to go back and catch up on all the ones I missed.

congrats!

We are the smartest readers

CONGRATULATIONS, Jef!!

Congratulations, Jef!

Congratulations on twenty years, Jef/Frazz. Here’s to your (at least) next twenty!

Congratulations!

I met Jef several years ago when a local business invited him to make a presentation on cartooning. We lent him a bike, went for a ride, and he had a flat tire. Dang! But a great guy! I subscribe to My Comics primarily to read his work, since our local paper has never seen fit to include Frazz.