Don’t Label Me
We all carry many labels; the ones we apply to ourselves, and the ones others categorize us with. Good or bad, there’s often little we can do about them.
(This comic strip was previously published on September 2, 2010.)
The eighth annual Wombat Day is less than two months away! So start planning your celebration now for the best day of the year, October 22!
Debbie Adams painted Fraz about to sled down a steep hill in her painting Fraz On His New Sled which can be seen on her blog.
LOL!!! Fraz’s look…priceless.
I’d be willing to sell it to you, though! For a price!
Take no less than 2,000,000,000.00 for the starting bid.
Ok! I sure hope Loon can afford me!
I might be able to afford you, but what would I do with you ????
I dunno. I could do all your pirating!
I want you too and you don’t have to do anything just relax and have a lot of chocolates and whatever you wish to …ok i will start with 45,000,000,000.00
Lets sort this by putting Fraz on eBay .. no reserve 😉
I wonder what my listing would say?
That sounds pretty good to me! 45,000,000,000 and lots of chocolates! Yay!
Going once, going twice, Sold to the highest bidder!
Yay! With all that much money, I should be able to be able to buy a plane ticket to see Soma this time. Maybe even a whole plane!
You will need a fleet of planes fraz, everyone is coming with you so get your best surf board packed and off we all go 🙂
Oh boy, that’ll be fun! I hope we don’t scare Soma when we all arrive at the airport!
No she will be coming with us, we are all going to Hawaii for a surfing holiday 🙂 Well don’t forget your scuba gear either as those sharks will need scaring off and you are the best Wombie guy for the job 🙂
That’ll be an awesome party! We can have it on one of the beaches. Maybe we can have a sandcastle making contest, too!
Yes and the winner gets a choco surprise 🙂 I wonder how many entrants there will be? 🙁
I think about everyone!
Yes I hadn’t thought about that scenario 🙁
It’s a big beach, so it shouldn’t be a problem! I hope everyone has brought their sand shovels and buckets!
Winky, you better run like the wind because when Fraz finally works out what it says (reading it upside down and all) you’re going to be in big doodah.
Fraz always wanted a tattoo. I just gave it to him!
Wombie Ink
Yeah! Maybe I should open up a tattoo shop! Painless tattoos! Cheap!
You look like and old pro with the ink pad.
Stamping tattoos since, well, yesterday!
Chocolate flavored tatts…oh yeah!!!
I think chocolate flavored tattoos could be a big seller!
Winky you are the naughtiest one, where is Binky?
Binky’s working on his rockets like usual.
I’m not naughty! I was just having fun!
You were having fun being naughty, but it’s okay I have brought you some fruity wine gums and a big bag of marshmallows 🙂
Okay, I guess I was being a bit naughty. Maybe I should be naughty more often to get more treats!
Sure why not, besides we can all be naughty and enjoy the treats, and even some non-zombie milkshakes to finish off with if Deb remembers to bring them over on her next visit? 🙂
I think she’ll remember. Deb’s the milkshake queen! I’ll bring the chocolate rum balls!
And I will help you both
eat and drink all the goodies 🙂
You’ll be there a long time! We have unlimited goodies!
Milkshakes for everyone!… Even a few Zombie shakes for those that like sort of an icky flavor.
And all the chocolates that you can eat! And everybody else, too!
I always like visiting you Winky, and I always leave either very hungry or incredibly full 🙂
You should never leave hungry! There’s too many goodies around here that need to be eaten!
Haha, that’s a good stamp on Fraz! I agree, if we categorize ourselves, we usually go for the decent adjectives, whereas our friends make it all the more interesting! When I categorize myself as a cat lover, my friends say “No, it must be “crazy cat lady”! (Sigh)
Others often see us not quite as complimentary as we would like.
Yes I definitely agree
with you on that one Peter 🙁
But in our own reality, we’re great!
I think the Wombies, and I are on the same page 😉
I think we all are. 😉
We should celebrate our mutual superiority!
That is a thoroughly excellent idea!
Okay then. Here’s to all of us.
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Is that Claret or Merlot?
claret of course. 😉
Oh, excellent. Momma loves Claret…both kinds 🙂
I guess if she already has the best, Claret we can only give her more of the best.
I thought it was wine gum soda!
No, but I guess we could put some wine gum in the blender with a little juice to make you some.
That would be great! Thanks!
To all of us wonderful folk!
Hear, Hear!
Hey have I missed the party? 🙁
No, it’s just beginning!
It wouldn’t be a Wombie party without you, Andro.
It’s about time you finally get here, Andro. Have a glass of wine and celebrate with us!
Thanks I have brough our party hats and loads of treats, Fraz and Winky will be so pleased (everyone in Wombania will be too) 🙂
Our party wouldn’t be a real party without your party hats! I hope you brought the chocolate ones we can eat!
Pter you are right we are the best 🙂
yaya Party time 🙂
Wombania fans certainly are the best!
Not just us…you too, and all the work you put into this site. 🙂
Thank you, Deb. But all the commenters add a great deal to this place. Without all of you, it would be pretty dead.
Did someone mention dead, I knew one of those zombies had got loose… Don’t worry Peter he will be caught, eventually 🙂
There are many dead or half-dead sites all over the internet. I guess those Zombies never had it so good!
You’re right they are everywhere Peter, one only has to stray from the path and a Werewolf or Zombie pops up 🙁 Never mind we can always hide somewhere until they have all gone 🙂
We have Fraz and his pirate crew to protect us. And if that doesn’t work, I hope you have some good hiding spots!
Yes we can hide in the Crypt or under a gravestone, I know lots of creepy hiding places you know? 🙂
Yes, I wouldn’t doubt that for a moment!
I knew you would understand 🙂
ow…my poor friend 🙁
But you can do the same at Winky…just write Winky – the fat one 😉
Hehehe lucky I will never be labeled as the little one anymore 😉
Yeah, Winky better watch out!
I’m coming to stamp him!
I think I’ll always be the little one!
Being little has its advantages
Fraz so don’t you forget that 🙂
I guess. But I’d like to be BIG!
Being little has advantages, Fraz.
That’s what everyone seems to be telling me.
Did you know I am the littlest one in my family? (And there are nearly 1,000 of us.)
Really?? I didn’t know that!
I guess that makes me feel better.
A thousand of you? Is that some sort of record?
Wow a thousand, that has to be a record 🙂
Yeah, that’s like a colony of ants!
Our last reunion there were 758 of us there. We rent a National Park to have it…and all the hotels, campgrounds, motels and RV centers for about 100 miles. If you live within 100 miles, you have to commute.
Is that what they mean when they talk about the invasion of the Reds?
The invasion of the Reds?
Beware…you can be turn into something REDdish 😉
I guess that would be better than turning into a radish!
You need to think of all the thing you can do being small in size the big can’t do. Embrace your side, Fraz!
I can get away with things sometimes. I’m too young to know better.
Think of all the advantages you have when you have to fight of Zombies and great sharks. Being small makes it hard for them to catch you. And you can fit in places that others can’t get to. And you wear all the best looking cloths…when you wear them for show that is.
Yeah, you should see all the stodgy clothes they have in my size.
You should come to my pirate shop and get some real authentic pirate clothes!
Yes, he has tons of nice thing to wear in there. I get my bandanas from his store now. Mom has easy access to it.
Yeah, if I’m not there, you can use the secret key hidden under the skull planter by the door. But don’t tell anyone!
Yeah, I guess those are some pretty good things. I know all the best hiding spots! And I have some pretty good pirate clothes!
See, you getting the idea already. Small in size is a wonderful way to be.
I guess it isn’t as bad as I thought.
And everyone gives you extra
pancakes for being so cute 🙂
I thought they gave me extras because they were scared of me!
Aw, well Sharky was afraid of you and he give you pancakes now right?
Yeah, and he gave me some gold he found on the ocean floor, too!
Yes scared of you, but that doesn’t stop them from thinking that you are cute too you know? 🙂 You are a sort of scary Vampy with a cute smile, so how about that for gaining extra treats 🙂
Well, I guess that’s ok. As long as they think I’m scary, too.
I don’t thing anyone ever did or will in the history of time accomplish that.
Accomplish what??
I guess the rest of my statement is MIA. 🙄
I meant all the different things you’ve done Fraz. Just ask Andro, he’s got the list down pat.
Here’s a chocolate candy cane for keeping you hanging for 2 days.
I have done quite a lot for a little Wombie! With a lot of help from my friends!
Yes Fraz, and there is still a very long list of adventures to enjoy 🙂
I hope so! There’s all kinds of neat things I wanna do!
LOL Koten
Sorry, my R went AWOL
Those Rs get away from me sometimes, too!
I’m imagining he’s been holding on to that stamp for a loooong time, waiting for his chance!
Sometimes you just have to wait for just the right opportunity!
Um… at least it’s a… unique… stamp! Not plural or anything… kind of… singular… right?!
🙂
I guess there aren’t too many little Fraz’s out there.
He went to the trouble to get one which only applies to you. 🙂
Yeah, I guess Winky did.
That sounds like a good thing to me.
I guess. But I wish it said Fraz, the dangerous one, or something. Instead of the littlest one.
This is one of my favourite paintings of Fraz, well done Deb he is looking great in this scene, Captain Fraz the Fearless 🙂
I really like this one, too. But Deb has done so many good ones.
Thanks Peter. I’m glad you like this one. I got a hoot out of it. Thanks for posting it too! 🙂
You’re welcome, Deb. It is a real fun one.
Thanks Andro! You are always so generous with your comments, my friend! 🙂
Well you are such a fine artist Deb, you deserve the very best of comments for all of your hard work 🙂
Your far too kind, my friend! 🙂
Captain Fraz the Fearless, that’s ME!
Yes and nobody has said anything else about you being little either, your too scary for them I think? 🙂
I think so, yeah! I can be pretty scary!
Most people and Wombie would be terrified to do the things you do.
I am pretty brave!
Yes and those sharks always swim in the opposite direction when you are in the water 🙂 Scared stiff of you they are 🙂
You think so? Maybe after our fight, Sharky told the other sharks that I was more dangerous than I looked!
He sent the message loud and clear through all the waters of the deep blue.
I guess I’m feared by sharks everywhere, then!
There are a lot of Zombies scared of you too, and skeletons run just at the mention of your name so i figure that you are a very scary Wombie indeed 🙂
Really? I guess it shouldn’t be so hard to keep the zombies and skeletons away from our parties, then. We could announce me over the loudspeakers. Fraz is here, Fraz is here! Then they should all run away!
That would definitely be a neat trick Fraz, and then Twink can make us some fresh pancakes without the fear of any of them being stolen 🙂
Those pancake stealing Zombies can be annoying! So it’ll be good if we won’t have to worry about them any more.
Those Zombies always try creeping everyone out at beach parties but when they see you in your Pirate outfit I am sure that they will be
trembling in their flip flops 🙂
I hope so! But we’ve loaded the ship’s cannons just in case they aren’t scared of me!
Great I like the sound of those cannons firing, are we going to take turns at lighting the fuses? 🙂
Sure, if Binky will let you. He kinda likes those exploding things.
They listen…they just don’t care.
That’s even worse!
I care Fraz. I hand on most all the words you say…that’s how I get painting ideas for you.
Really?? That makes me feel better, Aunt Deb!
That’s good, because it’s true. Now how about a chocolate milkshake?
Sure, I can have a chocolate milkshake anytime! You want one, too?
I think I will join you, we are the three amigo’s 🙂
Sure! Maybe we could get a huge milkshake with three straws!
That would be special. Make it a triple size shake.
At least a triple! Maybe a sixle! We all like a lot of milkshake!
For always! 😉
Yes I do, Fraz…thank you.
Let’s have another milkshake! With extra fudge this time!
Yes extra fudge and pancakes
flavoured wine gums too 🙂 🙂
That sounds like a yummy snack before supper!
Well I just had supper and it sound good to me right now.
It’s good for a bedtime snack, too!
I think it would be a good breakfast snack too 🙂
Pancakes and wine gums are good any time you can get them!
Yes well let’s always makes sure that we can get some, and lots of them too 🙂
That’s no problem around my island! We always have lots of treats!
Good to know. I need a shake break now. And for all the rest of you I brought some double chocolate dipped marshmallow pies
Oh boy! That sounds good! We need some chocolate dipped pancakes, too!
I am going to share the non-zombie recipe with Deb and Twink, then once they have made all the pies we can try them out with a little helping of double cream or vanilla ice cream 🙂
That sounds like a fun afternoon! I’ll make sure to bring an extra-big appetite!
How cheeky of Winky to be stamping you like that… I hope you managed to wipe it off and help yourself to a stack of freshly made pancakes Fraz? 🙂
I had to scrub really hard (with soap even!), but it did come off. Eventually.
I hope you didn’t get sore from all the scrubbing.
Too bad it was not chocolate ink. Claret never lets anyone else use the chocolate ink.
Chocolate ink? We don’t have chocolate ink! I’m gonna have to get some! It might make schoolwork fun, almost.
It is really cool. But your schoolwork has to stay cool until your get it to your teacher…It is bad when it melts in her grade book.
Teacher, the sun melted my homework!
I’m liking chocolate ink even more!
I put ice cream on it to make it feel better. And put a little ice cream in me to make my insides feel better, too.
That’s work. Makes scrubbing worth the trouble.
Bath time would be a lot more fun if I got ice cream after it!
I see no reason why you can’t bathe in ice cream Fraz, I mean if Cleopatra can bathe in ***** milk then you can try any flavour of ice cream that you like 🙂
Oops that word was censored, okay then I will say Azzes milk instead 🙂 Hope you like the ice cream bath Fraz 🙂
An ice cream bath would be lots of fun in summer!
Getting stamped wasn’t just a bad deal after all. 😉
Yeah, maybe not!
I don’t know if Winky has mentioned this to you yet, but there are lots of new and improved Winky chocolate milkshakes waiting to be sampled 🙂 They are called ‘Captain Frazzo’s… A Drink for Pirates and Heroes’ 🙂
Winky didn’t tell me that! I better get over to his factory before those milkshakes are all gone! They sound awesome! Kinda like me!
Absolutely 🙂
🙂
Peel it off before it sets!
It was a stampy stamp, not a sticky stamp, but I was able to wash it off.
I wondered why he wanted to borrow my ink pad.
And you loaned it to him?!
He was mumbling something about artistic genius…
Winky and genius don’t usually go together.
No but Fraz and Genius do 🙂
But most people still don’t know that!
Don’t worry they soon will 🙂
Maybe I should get a neon sign or something.
Yes or a pendant with GENIUS written on it, then you can add it to all the other bling that you have 🙂
I like the pendant idea! It’d go good with my Nobel Prize!
🙂 Definitely 🙂
The only label you need Fraz, is cute and sweet. Or maybe one that says feed me chocolate.
He would not stay the little one that way!
I don’t know, he eats quite a bit and stays pretty little, at least till he gets older.
The metabolism of the young.
Twink says I eat enough to feed an army!
I don’t think she’s ever fed an army, though.
She’s probable seen and army eat on one of Chris’s old movies and knew you ate more.
I guess she might have!
I remember…those were the days.
Maybe I should be eating more chocolate, then!
I want to eat more chocolate but don’t think I should.
Why not?? Or, right, you’re a people. I keep forgetting that. People can’t eat nearly as much as Wombies can.
I don’t think I like that label any better!
Well the feed me one would be ok.
Okay, we’ll scratch the sweet and cute part and replace it with fearless pirate Captain….better?
Now that’s a good label!
How about another label that reads. Captain Vampy Fraz, the Prince of all the seas and fearless fighter of all?
That’s even better! No one will want to beat me up now!
No one can beat you up, Fraz…Your a fearless fighter. We got to do something about your memory. Here’s another chocolate shake, Fraz…that ought to do the trick.
That’s right, I’m a fearless pirate captain king! And a pretty good shark fighter, too!
So, Winky, you have stamps for everyone?
No. It might be dangerous to stamp Twink or Binky.
And Chris too. 😉
I wouldn’t want to stamp him, either!
No don’t be stamping on Chris, the poor thing will be upset 🙁 Give him some chocolate to cheer him up a bit 🙂
It’s a lot better around here when we keep Chris happy!
I agree, and his mouth is chomping away at the chocolate pancakes I made earlier, all we need to do is keep him eating 🙂
If we keep feeding him like that, maybe we can turn him into a Wombie!
Yes he will be gaining weight if we give him triple snacks and lots of desserts 🙂
And hopefully gaining a funner personality, too!
That could be difficult with his poor sense of humour but I guess anything is possible if we stick at it 🙂 Here have a chocolate whipped cream yogurt cookie while we figure it out 🙂
Maybe if we force feed him happy food while making him watch old Three Stooges movies?
Hey that’s a brilliant plan and if he isn’t laughing enough after those we can throw a few Laurel and Hardy, Harold Lloyd and Hermon Musnster movies in, Chris won’t be able to stop giggling after those shows 🙂
That should work! Maybe you could be in charge of the movies, and I’ll take care of the food!
Yes why not, I have just finished eating those 35 marshmallows that you brought over, actually I ate 34 and I saved you one so how about that for sharing? 🙂
Well at least you saved me an extra-big one! I brought a wheelbarrow of chocolate so we can keep Chis stuffed to the gills!
Love the action lines in panel three. Great motion!
It’s done with the Smudge Tool set for Motion Blur.
I still dream of owning photo shop one day.
I use Corel Photopaint, mostly. Do you use Gimp? Whatever you use, it doesn’t seem to be limiting you!
I am still using the ancient smudge with the finger style, all you need is a pencil and a finger, I usually use one of the Zombies fingers as they don’t mind a bit of lead down the fingernails 🙂
So you can do multiple finger smudge, Zombie style. That could be a new photoshop plugin!
It would certainly make an interesting App 🙂
Patent Pending!
🙂
I use GIMP.
I only tried it briefly. I should really play around with it more to see what it can really do.
I guess it’s better that it’s a stamp and not permanent magic marker!
Yeah. Or a permanent tattoo!
Yeah, that would have really hurt and been stuck on you.
I wouldn’t mind getting a pirate tattoo, though!
Yes well be careful where you bend over or you might get a parrot stamped somewhere 🙁 Those Zombies are always up to no good…
I try to stay away from the zombies! They’re sneaky! And smelly, too!
it’s a Zombie trait, I know 🙁
At least we can usually smell them coming!
Yes for at least a mile or ten 🙁 Icky things they are Fraz 🙁
But at least their smell warns us that they’re coming.
Yes and it gives us a chance to hide all the goodies too, you know how greedy those icky and stinky Zombies are 🙁
Luckily we have those zombie traps to take care of most of them. I think maybe we should dig a moat to keep the rest of them away.
Yes that would be a great job for Chris to get started on, and while he is busy digging away we can sit back and enjoy all our chocolate treats 🙂
Sounds good to me! But I think Chris might not like digging so much!
He will when he sees those Zombies on his trail, believe me he won’t be able to dig fast enough 🙂 But he will be safe so don’t worry 🙂
Yeah, those Zombies should get Chris digging fast!
Poor Fraz. Labeling is done all the time. It’s just part of life.
Have a terrific day. 🙂
I still don’t like it, though.
The only label that you need to believe is the one you give yourself…make it good.
I like the one Andro gave me. Captain Fraz the Fearless. But I think I’d add pirate to it. Captain Fraz the Fearless Pirate!
Yes I agree, it is a very fitting title for you 🙂
I think so! Maybe I could add king in there, too. Captain Fraz the Fearless Pirate King!
HIS HIGHNESS THE INVINCIBLE BRAVE HEART CAPTAIN FRAZ THE FEARLESS PIRATE KING
Yay me!!
I declare this day the beginning of Party Weekend! No work for anyone! And all the chocolates and pancakes you can eat!
Wicked, I have started up the generators and the pancakes are being readied for the coming party, beach parties were never this good until Captain Fraz the Fearless Braveheart King came along so how cool is that? 🙂 Hip-Hip-Hoooooooooooray 🙂
My beach parties are the best! Mostly because of all the cool people who show up and have fun. And the food’s pretty good, too. Thanks to Twink and Winky and Genie!
I’ve got enough party hats for everyone and a pinatas stuffed with wine gums.
That should be the hit of the party!
Get it? Pinata? Hit? Ha ha!
Yes that could be a good game… ‘Find de Pinata de Haystack’ and whoever finds it wins a years supply of chocolate fudge cakes 🙂
I want the fudge cakes!
You can have Andro, fudge cakes. and some of mine because I want some too.
We can share! I’m sure Andro would have brought plenty for all of us.
Of course he did, I was just trying to get a rise out of him so he would come out and join us.
I think he’s already here. He’s just hiding behind pinata!
On a positive note, Fraz, at least the label has your name on it so everyone will know who you are.
I guess it is kind of a personal label.
At least it didn’t say “Expired”.
That wouldn’t be good! I don’t want to expire!
Aww…poor little Fraz. Winky is a big meanie! 😛
Sometimes Winky and I fight. But mostly we get along.
I hope it was Chocolate ink on Fraz …
No, it wasn’t. But I’m working on chocolate ink tattoos!
hey October 22nd oh i would love to celebrate am already having some ideas …
will mark my calendar
My favorite way to celebrate Wombat Day is with a Wombat Day cake!
He’s he the middle child. That’s exactly how I felt.
Are you the middle kid? I’m the youngest.
Poor Fraz… 😉
They pick on me because I’m the smallest!
Don’t worry Fraz I have fashioned some stilts for you to try out, I just hope that you are not scared of heights? 🙁
Me? I’m not scared of anything!
The stilts are awesome! Thanks, Andro!
Now you can reach anything you want in the kitchen.
Yeah, and I don’t have to ask Winky or Genie to get it for me!
You have three extensions on those stilts so keep that in mind for the very high treats on offer 🙂 I think the tallest is about 15 metres so you will be really tall with those attached 🙂
I tried the stilts on the highest setting outside! They’re so tall I can see over houses! I feel like a giant!
That’s brilliant and did you try pushing the green button on top of the left stilt? It has a rocket booster to enable a short flight, this was an after thought by Binky because he knows how you like to try new inventions out 🙂 Don’t worry there is a parachute built in to it for safety reasons 🙂
I didn’t know that! I just tried it and went for a short flight! I think I touched the clouds!!
The landing was a bit hard, but luckily I landed on Winky.
Yes and I bet that was
a much softer landing than
expected 🙂
For me it was! Maybe not for Winky, though.
That is too bad! Tell me… I am all eras!
Sorry, that should read”I am all ears!” 🙂
I’m the youngest around here. And the smallest. So sometimes everyone ignores me!
Not Everyone Fraz 🙁
No, not my friends like you!
I just mean the other guys around here.
They don’t realise how important you are but give them time, I am sure that they will soon recognise your superior talents 🙂
I hope so! It gets boring telling everyone how great I am!
We need to set up a ‘We Know Fraz Is Great’ foundation, and then everyone will know 🙂 🙂
That’s a good idea! Maybe I could buy billboard ads, or TV commercials! Then everyone would know!
I need a stamp to go assault people with. I’m a bit envious of Winky.
You can borrow my stamp if you know any Frazs that need labeling.
That’s the most mischievous I’ve ever seen you Winky. Great work!!!
Sometimes I get a bit wild!
Hey Winky, do you have a stamp I can borrow that says “Cedric, The Fat One” he he he…
Sorry, Barry, I only have the Fraz stamp. You could probably make one to stamp Cedric. It’s not that hard. Getting away with it is harder.
You may be little, Fraz, but don’t think little of yourself!
I try not to! Thanks, Marieke!
That is some really good advice Fraz 🙂
Yeah, Marieke is a monster, and monsters are pretty smart. Well, I guess you know that already.
Sometimes we just can’t outrun who we really are.
Maybe if I run faster?