Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 29, 2013

That is what they’re for.

He reminds me of a teenager Calvin.

When I was about ten, I was over at a church parking lot. It was paved with dirty sand from the engine factories in town…Oily…I don’t know why I went over there, because I already had my new pants on to go out to dinner……But a fight occurred, and I won, until I got home. My pants were ruined…Black oily smudges on new pants, never to be gotten out….My mom was madder than I’d ever seen her. Scared the hell out of me. “Wait until your father gets home!”, she said. For three hours I sat in my room in dread of what my dad would do….When he got home he asked me how it had happened….I told him the truth, a smaller friend of mine was being beat up (A guy my dad knew was always picked on) and I defended him…BTW, I almost lost, he was much bigger than I, but I have a mean streak, so as a last resort, I hit the ass in the balls and grabbed a cancerous handful of toxic oily sand and shoved it in his eyes and rubbed it in…. I don’t go down easily….When my dad heard the part that I did it to protect my friend from a bully, everything was forgiven by Dad’s decree….I had done what was right….BTW, the dude probably died of eye cancer….

“Not yet she doesn’t!”

Frazz is not a grown up Calvin, they don’t even live on the same planet.

there are no “school clothes” any more. You wear jeans everywhere, unless you have a school uniform.

Every store out there is reading this and hoping all the kids out there do the same, so they can sell parents MORE clothes before school even starts. And yes, there ARE school clothes still, for obvious reasons. And if you can’t see them, your kids must look like slobs at school. Good job.

Red & Rover understand.

’Cause the pure of heart have guardian angels.

This is how you do overlapping balloons, as in panel one. Separate them with a solid line to eliminate any confusion as to who’s speaking.

Thank you.

Seven years old, twenty years ago, end of summer. Super thick “kid proof” sweats as described by Lands End. Climbed a tree an hour after putting them on and that was the end of them.