So this morning, I'm looking at our Raleigh newspaper,
the News & Observer.
I don't always look at the comics, but today I did, and it's a lucky
thing. There's "Frazz", the comic about a musician who works as
an elementary school janitor. He's out for a walk with his lady
friend, and what does she have on a leash? You guessed it: a
retired racing Greyhound.
What's that? You don't live in the N&O's circulation
area? Or you're reading this too late to pick up a copy for
today, April 27, 2007? Don't worry about a thing. This is a
full-service blog, and I have spared no effort in tracking down the
strip online. Here's a link which should bring it up, for the
next thirty days, at
least: http://www.comics.com/comics/frazz/archive/frazz-20070427.html.
Alerted by today's strip to the fact that the author knows a little
somethin' somethin' about Greys, I searched further, and found another
Frazz strip where the same dog is spoken of, but not seen. It's
on the page at Cafepress.com
where you can shop for t-shirts and things with Frazz strips printed
on
them: http://www.cafepress.com/cp/category.aspx?category=fzstripdesigns&storeid=frazz&type=strip.
Look at the last color strip on that page.
But neither of those strips is exactly about
Greyhounds. Ah, but I've saved the best for last. I found
a third example of a Frazz strip, this one with the hound actually in
it again ... and to me, this one's considerably the most likely to
bring a smile to the heart of anyone who knows Greyhounds.
This one has also remained
online longer than either of the others, and likely will be there for
a while: it's been fossilized, so to speak, by being reprinted in the
newsletter of a Greyhound rescue organization,
Greyhounds
Only, Inc., of the Chicago area. You can download a PDF file containing
the appropriate issue of their newsletter (namely, Fall 2003) from this
URL: http://www.greyhoundsonly.com/news%20letter/GOIncFall2003.pdf.
You'll find the strip (and confirmation that its author, Jef
Mallett, is a Greyhound person) on page five.
Happy hunting!
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7:51:20 PM 
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