Frazz 29 Oct [SPOILERS]
Leo Breebaart
I thought somebody here would already have said something, but
since I don't think anybody has, I'm going to go out on a limb
myself and post my guess at Caulfield's literary Halloween
character for this year, based on the 29 Oct strip:
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Goncharov's Oblomov.
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Leo Breebaart <l...@lspace.org>
racs...@gmail.com
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> I thought somebody here would already have said something, but
> since I don't think anybody has, I'm going to go out on a limb
> myself and post my guess at Caulfield's literary Halloween
> character for this year, based on the 29 Oct strip:
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> Goncharov's Oblomov.
You mean he won't show up for school?
Mike Peterson
http://nellieblogs.blogspot.com
Peter B. Steiger
> I thought somebody here would already have said something, but since I
> don't think anybody has, I'm going to go out on a limb myself and post
> my guess at Caulfield's literary Halloween character for this year,
> based on the 29 Oct strip:
(spoiler deleted)
Not a chance. It has to be easy enough that Mrs. Wossname figured it
out, so I'm thinking...
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After all these years, he's finally portraying his namesake.
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Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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jay.s...@gmail.com
wrote:
> Not a chance. It has to be easy enough that Mrs. Wossname figured it
> out, so I'm thinking...
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> After all these years, he's finally portraying his namesake.
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> Peter B. Steiger
"There’s no way this is 'Catcher In The Rye.' Holden Caulfield
couldn’t stand the phoniness of movies. There’s no way he’d watch
television."
(quoted because reasoning lifted from
http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/10/29/the-game-is-afoot/#comments,
and I just happen to agree)
Blinky the Wonder Wombat
> and I just happen to agree)
Enui and an affected attitude with material trappings- perhaps he's
the Great Gatsby?
bllbickel
> [BEWARE OF SPOILERS]
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> I thought somebody here would already have said something, but
> since I don't think anybody has, I'm going to go out on a limb
> myself and post my guess at Caulfield's literary Halloween
> character for this year, based on the 29 Oct strip:
There's a discussion going on here:
http://comicsidontunderstand.com/wordpress/2008/10/29/the-game-is-afoot/#comments
Default User
I guess I'm not the only one isn't finding it to be easy.
Brian
--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)
Jim Ellwanger
"Peter B. Steiger" <see...@for.email.address> wrote:
> After all these years, he's finally portraying his namesake.
Caulfield was "Holdin' Caulfield" in 2003 -- which wasn't what Jef
Mallett had originally intended, but he said he liked that
interpretation better than what he'd come up with.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60424-2003Oct21.html
(and search for entries by "One F Jef")
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Jim Ellwanger <use...@ellwanger.tv>
<http://www.ellwanger.tv> welcomes you daily.
"The days turn into nights; at night, you hear the trains."
Brian B
as a fireman.
Brian B
Joseph Nebus
>Interesting that when it's revealed today (Oct. 31) Frazz is dressed
>as a fireman.
I feel like a fool for not realizing it earlier. I think I
was thrown off by Frazz's talking about the new TV; I was worried for
Caulfield.
The iPod should have been a tipoff. There was some arguing
sometime in the past year or so where Ray Bradbury was quoted as saying
_Fahrenheit 451_ was about the perils of people being so isolated in
their entertainment that they lose their connections with the community,
and as this goes against the understandable impression of _Fahreneheit
451_ as being about how censorship makes people stupid.
These days I'm leaning more towards the `perils of isolation'
interpretation. It seems to me like the bigger society problem was the
lack of meaningful communication between people rather than the burning
of books.
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Joseph Nebus
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arfenarf
d59a3c...@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
> Interesting that when it's revealed today (Oct. 31) Frazz is dressed
> as a fireman.
I'm the tiniest bit pleased that Mrs. Olsen worked it out on her own. She
gets to be a bit more interesting and capable than she would be if she were
merely there to be a bumbling foil to Frazz and the bright kids.
Cool.
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arfenarf
Len-L
opined:
True. I was surprised when she failed to notice the Dorian Gray costume
in a previous year.
Len-L
axlq
arfenarf <arfe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>I'm the tiniest bit pleased that Mrs. Olsen worked it out on her own. She
>gets to be a bit more interesting and capable than she would be if she were
>merely there to be a bumbling foil to Frazz and the bright kids.
Yes, I remember the first time I was impressed by Mrs. Olson was
last summer (maybe a year ago), when Caulfield gets a job tending
Mrs. Olsen's yard. He would try to play tricks on her (such as
strategically aiming the sprinkler), and she would find ways to make
the tricks backfire on him. It gladdened my heart to know she has a
playful side. And Caulfield ended the summer respecting her.
-A
racs...@gmail.com
> In article <Xns9B485AB8FE7BAarfenarfgmail...@69.16.185.247>,
I think it's important that Jef keep her from becoming too much of a
"type." A little nuance is nice. I wouldn't want her to do a Hot Lips
Houlihan jumping of the shark, to where she becomes a beloved,
dedicated professional. But there's a lot of space between one-
dimensional and sold-out, and he does a nice job of keeping her in the
zone.
Mike Peterson
http://nellieblogs.blogspot.com
Joy Beeson
wrote:
> It gladdened my heart to know she has a
> playful side.
As shown by the costume she chose to wear.
--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
Jym Dyer
> what Jef Mallett had originally intended, but he said he
> liked that interpretation better than what he'd come up with.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60424-2003Oct21.html
| One F Jef: This is great! Your reader's interpretation is way
| better than the gag I wrote. I'd give him/her a t-shirt if I
| had any.
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| I'll draw him/her a Frazz if he/she wants to somehow get me
| his/her (I hate this gender stuff) address.
=v= He'd offered "a Frazz" (i.e. a Frazz drawing) to whoever
guessed it. The person who guessed Dorian Gray won this, but
as you can see he offered a second one to the person who sent
the "Holdin' Caulfield" gag to the _Washington_Post_.
=v= I remember this so well because I came up with "Holdin'
Caulfield" and posted it here instead of there, so I didn't
win anything:
(Interestingly, somebody guessed _Farenheit_451_ in that
thread!)
<_Jym_>