History ComicStrip / Frazz

* SubvertedPunchline: In [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2016/01/10http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2016/01/10 this comic]], Frazz makes a reference to a song by Music/TheWho without saying the name of the band, hoping that Caulfield will ask the question of "Who?" as in "who wrote it?" He goes for proper grammar instead and asks "whom?"

* Mr. Burke - fourth-grade teacher and friend of Frazz's. They regularly shoot baskets--except that neither of them ever makes one. Several years into the comic, he also took up running.

** The first [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2001/04/08 Sunday strip]] has Frazz painting the cafeteria in kid-friendly parodies of ''[[NighthawksShot Nighthawks]]'', Creator/AndyWarhol's ''Campbell's Soup Cans'', ''[[Art/SistineChapel Creation of Adam]]'', Creator/SalvadorDali's ''Art/ThePersistenceOfMemory'', and ''[[LastSupperSteal The Last Supper]]'', with the title panel (not shown in the linked page) featuring Frazz as the [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Vitruvian Man]] for a bonus.

** The first [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2001/04/08 Sunday strip]] has Frazz painting the cafeteria in kid-friendly parodies of ''[[NighthawksShot Nighthawks]]'', ''[[Creator/AndyWarhol Campbell's Soup Cans]]'', ''[[SistineSteal Creation of Adam]]'', ''[[Creator/SalvadorDali Persistence of Memory]]'', and ''[[LastSupperSteal The Last Supper]]'', with the title panel (not shown in the linked page) featuring Frazz as the [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Vitruvian Man]] for a bonus.

** [[BrilliantButLazy Caulfield]] does this as a RunningGag. He uses the dots to write out music notes, and later recreates Art/TheMonaLisa.

* SturgeonsLaw: In [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2004/10/10 one strip,]] Frazz explains this to a kid using a real sturgeon as a metaphor.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Frazz is FriendToAllChildren, but especially to Caulfield.

* AlmightyJanitor: Frazz. He writes best-selling songs, does triathlons, and reads classic literature, all while being the janitor of an elementary school.

* SpiritualSequel: MANY people have noted the physical similarities between Frazz and [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]], the [[BrilliantButLazy similar personalities]], the general feel of the comic, the fact that Frazz shares several hobbies with Calvin's dad, and (most importantly) Mallet's art style being nearly indistinguishable from that of Bill Watterson. Though every theory has been {{Jossed}} to death - that Mallet IS Watterson, that Mallet intended for Frazz to be a sequel/alt-continuity to ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes - most fans, regardless, consider it a very-fitting, even if accidental, spiritual successor.

%% AlmightyJanitor: Frazz.
%% ApatheticTeacher: Mrs. Olsen, at times.

%% BlackAndNerdy: Caulfield.

%% BrilliantButLazy: Caulfield.

%% HardWorkHardlyWorks: Subverted with Caulfield's swimming.

%% JerkJock: Coach Hacker.

%% LittleProfessorDialog

--> You know, the traction's terrible up here.
--> I hadn't noticed.

%% {{Metaphorgotten}}: Caulfield's playing with this leads to a discussion of metaphor and simile.

%% SturgeonsLaw: [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2004/10/10 Featuring a real sturgeon!]]

%% MediumAwareness

* PictureDay: One story arc where Caulfield draws a goatee on himself in permanent marker the day before picture day. Resolved when [[spoiler: the photographer uses a computer program to cover the goatee]].

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* AlmightyJanitor: Frazz.
* ApatheticTeacher: Mrs. Olsen, at times.

* BlackAndNerdy: Caulfield.

* BrilliantButLazy: Caulfield.

* ChildProdigy: Caulfield again.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Subverted with Caulfield's swimming.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Caulfield's playing with this leads to a discussion of metaphor and simile.

* ObjectCeilingCling: Done [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2001/06/10 here]] with pickles.

* PaintingTheMedium: [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2011/08/14 This]] strip, where Frazz ''literally'' paints the medium.

* RenaissanceMan: Frazz is described as a modern version of this trope.

* SnowballFight: Frazz and Caulfield, more than once.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Frazz intends to [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2004/12/18 avert this]] for his first novel. [[invoked]]
* SternTeacher: Mrs. Olsen is this underneath her general meanness.

* SturgeonsLaw: [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2004/10/10 Featuring a real sturgeon!]]

* TooDumbToLive: Coach Hacker, on [[http://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2010/05/20 at least one occasion]].

* VolumetricMouth: The kids especially, but sometimes the older characters too.

* BookAndSwitch: One strip has Caulfield hiding Shakespeare inside his primary reader book... on read-aloud day.

* JerkJock: Coach Hacker.

* LittleProfessorDialog

* MediumAwareness

* BananaPeel: Realistically depicted, to the disappointment of the girl who tried to slip on a fresh one.

* AuthorAvatar: Some readers see Frazz as one for Jef Mallett.

** A couple of times, he's referred to an entire literary work through his actions, such as taking a new route to school for "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, or sitting on the swings with his dog for "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe.

* ShoutOut: Countless references to literature, art and music. Not mention that Bryson Elementary is named after author Bill Bryson. Then there's [[Literature/TheCatcherInTheRye Caulfield's name]].

** [[BrilliantButLazy Caulfield]] does this as a RunningGag. He uses the dots to write out music notes, and later recreates the Mona Lisa.