99 Percent Perspiration: A Frazz Collection

By Jef Mallett

Here's a strip to savor, doubly immersed in squeaky cleanliness and a knowing grasp of second graders' cool universe."

Frazz is fun. Frazz is cool. Frazz is . . . a hit! Take one successful and secure songwriter, put him on the steering end of a janitor's broom, and drop him into the world of elementary education. And with that, if Jef Mallett's calling the creative shots, you have the makings of one of the most flourishing new comic strips to come along in years.

Frazz follows the life and loves of one Edwin Frazier, aka "Frazz," as he writes more best-selling lyrics, ponders the world's greatest literature and deepest mysteries with an 8-year-old genius, and interacts with the menagerie of other faculty and staff members. What results is a wild mix of witty observations and outright slapstick that amuses while causing you to see the world in a new light.

99 Percent Perspiration is the second collection of this very popular strip that appears in more than 150 newspapers worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune. Frazz was nominated in 2004 as one of the best comic strips of the year by the National Cartoonists Society. It has also received two Wilbur awards for ethics and values.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2013
• ISBN: 9781449446741

Jef Mallett

While in high school, Jef Mallett produced a daily comic for the "Pioneer" in Big Rapids, MI. He later worked as a cartoonist, and as an art director and an editorial cartoonist for a chain of eight midsize dailies. He has written and illustrated the children's book "Dangerous Dan", and has also served as an illustrator for other authors, including best-seller Mitch Albom. Jef is also a contributing editor for "Inside Triathalon" magazine. He lives in Lansing, MI. www.comics.com/comics/frazz/

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Other Books by Jef Mallett

Frazz: Live at Bryson Elementary

To George Landon, who didn’t teach me how to write so much as why.

Introduction

I have the smartest readers in the world.

Is that saying a bit much? Garry Trudeau’s readers are pretty bright, and there’s what’s-his-face Kafka, but my readers are right up there

When I created Frazz, it was with the conceit that newspaper readers are a pretty smart lot. Newspapers take some effort; you can’t just stare at them slack-jawed and passively let them fill your brainpan with easy thought-substitute. But you get a good return on that effort, and the people who understand that are the kind of people I wanted to share my thoughts and stories with. And I got my wish.

Oopsie.

There’s a price that comes with readers that smart. Some have figured out that I myself am not that bright, and a subset of those are only too willing to point that out. Sometimes it’s a minor thing, like the time Frazz called Ayn Rand’s 1957 classic Atlas Shrugged one of this century’s toughest epics—in 2001. I can live with those corrections, and in fact I love them. You wince, you learn, and you move on toward the inevitable next screwup.

But once in a while, you make

Reviews for 99 Percent Perspiration

[pferdina · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A collection of strips by Jef Mallett. All black and white, unfortunately. Clever and intelligent jokes with a sprinkling of surprises, like Frazz's t-shirts. Many of the strips in this book deal with Frazz's crush on Miss Plainwell.

[ergoface · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Frazz Rocks! I like it as much as Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbes, and I can't get new fixes of them anymore.

[jimodo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Another brilliant collection of the brilliant comic strip.