Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 15, 2022

Is this the beginning of Mrs Olsen Triathlete?

Hiaasen? What a Hoot!

Caulfield, Lucky You, your Sick Puppy is not a Basket Case.

When you get older, you can Skinny Dip with Nature Girl on Star Island during Stormy Weather.

Count on Skink to put a Double Whammy on the Bad Monkey over in Mar-a-Lago.

You’ve read one Hiaasen, you’ve read them all.

Now, if the next book was a Heinlein, then he’d really have something.

“Click” didn’t look right, so I checked my fave dictionary (Amer. Herit. 4th Ed.). It gives klick (or klik) for kilometer. (Interesting that the comic mixes metric and miles.)

Mrs. Olsen is doing something new in this challenge, maybe Caufield should too. He’s a bit one-dimensional, he should be doing math or music.

Jimmy Buffett sure seems to be a huge fan.

a great Author to follow

Now there’s a reason for Mrs. Olsens strangely numbered distances.

Thanks for the book idea for my elementary child! – Always looking for new books to keep her reading.

Hoot, his book for middle-schoolers won a Newbery award and was made into a movie.

Locking load Caulfield, lock and load!

Well since we are turning this into a competition I’m on team Caulfield.

I tend to fall off the couch laughing when I’m reading a Hiaasen,

While you read Hiaasen, she’ll be heading to splurging on Häagen-Dazs.

I must admit I’d never heard of him before.

Hiaasen is wonderful, but my kids were only allowed to read the one syllable titles, not the two word titles.

Carl Hiaasen (/ˈhaɪ.əsɛn/; born March 12, 1950) is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for young-adult readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films.

I like “Naked Came the Manatee.” Particularly after having read the book it is parodying and the movie of that book. I knew one of the writers of the original book. They did not think it was going to be such a hit.