Cartoonist Jef Mallett tends to get accused of ripping off Bill Waterson, perhaps because of a superficial similarity of drawing style. Or perhaps because Mallet's Frazz and Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes have in common that they're both funny. Lord knows that has been a rare quality on the newspaper funny pages since Waterson pulled the plug on Calvin and Hobbes.
The Frazz of the strip's title is Edwin Frazier, a songwriter by vocation, elementary school custodian by avocation, and triathlete by obsession. Mallett himself is also a triathlete, leading to the occasional fitness joke like the one above. That's something you won't generally see on the comics pages, unless Elly from For Better or For Worse is out suffering through a jog around the block or something.
Rather than continuing to babble excitedly about Frazz, let me go ahead and invite you to try reading a few strips. United Media's comics.com site has the most recent month of strips here:
Let me know what you think.
- Frazz at comics.com
http://comics.com/frazz/ - Jef Mallett's blog
http://www.jefmallett.net/
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