Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 23, 2021

Children always have trouble imagining that adults were once young…

We cannot take a drive like we did when dating. Spouse can’t balance on the console. Though I guess that wouldn’t be a problem with the antique Chevelle.

Hopefully it’s an SS with a 454.

The slight smile in panel 3….the memories (which would probably freak Caufield out even more)

I’m probably Mrs Olsen’s age (or a bit younger) and if I had a cool car like that, I certainly wouldn’t let my husband be the only one to drive it :D (yes I can drive stick shift, everyone in Iceland can).

Witty man.

Bought a 65 m Mustang Fastback when I was 24. Years later my wife wanted me to sell it because it was old. I reminded her it was younger than her. Still have the car. And she learnt to accept it.

Well, that answers that.

I like the wide-eyed stunned look on Caufield’s face in the first three panels.

Caulfield is realizing there are many sides to Mrs. Olsen that don’t relate to her appearance. Good lesson for him — and some readers.

She’s a woman of contradictions, she’s a woman of many moods…She contains multitudes.

It IS a convertible, SS 396, right?

fusilier

James 2:24

Terrific Dylan reference.

I LOVE IT!!!

The local Oldsmobile dealer was a cousin. When I turned 18 I ordered a Cutlass from him with exactly what I wanted on it. Faster then their 442 cheaper too. A real muscle car in more ways than one – fast but it took a fair amount of muscle to drive it.

Let’s all PWAY about the YAWP reverse read.

How barbaric,

Just like when they were dating? Do they still use the back seat?

My high school English teacher contained multiples. She once told a story about how she and her husband snuck into the Taj Mahal for their honeymoon. Probably pre-World War Two.

I like the implication that she contains multitudes only some of the time.

Today, Caulfield has learned one of life’s great truths: “No one is born old.”

Song of hisself… :)

My boyfriend put my name on his 70 Chevelle SS. Yes, it had a 454 and was candy apple red with black racing stripes and the cowl-inducted hood. Yes, I married him.

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Frazz 17h ·

Yes. I draw Mrs. Olsen large. This is America, and I draw what’s out there. I’ve written about her largeness. But I also write about her multitudes, more and more. Guess which turns out to be more fun.

Maybe the times are changing, maybe I’m growing. I favor both. I embrace my past, but I don’t cling to it. I don’t suppose that makes me immune to criticism. But it makes it easier not to give a whit, man.

Am I the only one who has commented that Mrs. Olsen refers to her husband in the present tense, I don’t believe Mr. Olsen has ever been shown "on screen:.

“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” Walt Whitman. But I’m not sure of the reason for Frazz’s yawp.

Holy smoke, I’m older than Mrs. Olsen… I had a ’66 Chevelle when I was dating my wife.

Whitman is smiling at the allusion. Yawp, he is!

Does no one notice that both Caulfield (unknowingly) and Frazz (in deliberate response) are quoting Walt Whitman?