Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 14, 2015
June 13, 2015
June 15, 2015
Transcript:
Frazz: Any plans...? Caulfield: You bet! I'm putting "writer, the paris review," on my future resume. Frazz: Caulfield... Caulfield: Who's going to check? Everyone knows it's the big, big deal. But who, exactly, subscribes? And how many of those subscribers just put it on their coffee tables to impress people? My suspicion is their actually readership is about 20 Macarthur fellows who aren't hiring interns anyway. What could go wrong? Frazz: Somebody could hire you with corresponding expectations. Caulfield: That's mighty considerate of you to dash my hopes while I still have time for a plan B.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member over 9 years ago
“Fake it till you make it.”
Artistinfo over 9 years ago
Yeah, it could come back to you later..
whiteheron over 9 years ago
If you can’t dazzle them with knowledge, baffle them with BS.
Caldonia over 9 years ago
Riiiiight… Snob.
Stephen Gilberg over 9 years ago
Better teach Caulfield that hirers tend to contact your alleged former employers, no matter how boring it sounds.
dzw3030 over 9 years ago
An older friend suggested to me, “Never miss a chance to shut up” as a viable tactic. Talking to fill a void is simply babble and doesn’t impress anyone in the long run.
Aviatrexx Premium Member over 9 years ago
Hey!!!
I know it’s common for newspapers (specifically the comics layout service they use) to save newsprint space by not printing the title panel of a strip, even when the cartoonist used it as an introductory panel. For example, my local paper omitted the first two panels of today’s “Doonesbury”, which I didn’t realize until I checked on gocomics.com.
But there’s no excuse for GoComics, the only online licensee of “Frazz” from United Features, to publish anything less than the complete strip.
In today’s “News&Observer” (Raleigh, NC) the title panel has Frazz saying “What I meant was, any plans for your summer?” To which Caulfield replies “I find it works best to decide what I’m doing after I’m done.”
Sadly, this sort of editorial excision has gone on since the days of “Pogo”. Some of Kelly’s best artwork was in those title panels, and never saw the light of day until the strips were published in collections.
While the newspapers could make a case for saving newsprint real estate, GoComics can’t claim that they are saving the cost of the extra pixels.
Please give us the complete strip from now on.