Frazz by Jef Mallett for July 21, 2016
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Transcript:
Caulfield: Grumpy guy across the street with the lawn obsession has me baffled. Frazz: Clearly he's focused on appearances. Caulfield: An excellent theory if he himself weren't appearing in grandpa shorts and dress socks with his shirt off. Frazz: Focus is just as much about what you don't pay attention to.
A gameI play in my daily comic routine is taking a mental note of how many times the humor, if any (it may not be a humorous comic that day), is situational, self-effacing, or based on ripping on other people.
That last one can be a difficult call sometimes. Some characters, like Rat in Pearls Before Swine, for example, are always ripping on others, but such characters supposed to be a jerks, and the humor is mostly about how big of jerks they are, so it’s actually self-effacing.
That’s why it pains me to notice that, in Frazz, the main characters (who, let’s face it, are Frazz and Caulfield) too often engage in “ripping on other people”. I say it pains me, because I like the comic, and they’re suppose to be likable characters, but this is distinctly jerky behavior.
It’s just something I’ve to noticed. Let’s not make this in to a big hullaballoo.