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WEIRD (Eerie Publications) Mar �78 fi, 8.00. (# 47, 1978, Scholastic Magazines inc., Alfred E. Neuman on cover, � Happy Birthday MAD� 25 th anniversary article) fi, 5.00. Webcomic / Dysfunctional Family Circus. Looking for Bil Keane's much beloved Newspaper Comic The Family Circus ? Oy, have you come to the wrong place! The Dysfunctional Family Circus is a Remix Comic which uses Keane's art — or a pastiche thereof — with new captions, ranging from the cleverly satirical to the perversely offensive, with plenty in between. The DFC has actually existed in in several forms since the early 1980s, starting with appearances in various 'zines, and continues in several forms on The Internet, but the best known and longest running incarnation was that begun in 1994 by Greg "Spinwebbe" Galcik. Galcik's DFC consisted of a Keane cartoon which was left without a given caption, and allowed the viewers to submit their own words; these would then be edited by Galcik and Co., and the best would be posted in the permanent archive alongside the cartoon. Initially, the site would accept all but the most brain-damaged entries, but as the infamy of the site spread, it became clear that some sort of editing would be needed. This led, for a time, to a system of four zones in which the entries would be put while the cartoon was being commented on: The Green Zone: entries which were funny enough to usually ensure a place in the archive; The Yellow Zone: entries which were almost good enough for Green but were somewhat lacking. "Salvaging from Yellow" was a common practice; The Red Zone: entries which were rejected, but were so stupid they were amusing regardless. It was dropped later on when it became clear that some contributors were submitting stupid entries on purpose to get into the Red Zone; The Gray Zone: entries which were rejected, this one was not visible to the public. Most submissions ended up there. There was also the unrelated "Difficult Zone" and "Impossible Zone". The "Difficult Zone" included jokes that were either too easy, too overused and/or too insider. Captions that involved these had to be very creative to escape the "Gray Zone" purgatory. The "Impossible Zone" involved topics which only had one or two jokes which were either done already or not worth making. In 1999, after posting 499 cartoons to the site, Galcik received the long-expected "cease and desist" order from King Features Syndicate, demanding that the Keane art be taken down. While Galcik initially meant to fight the case in court, he reconsidered after a personal phone call from Keane himself, who was sympathetic to him. ◊ After the 500th and last entry was finished, the site was duly taken down, but not before several of the fans archived the entire contents for posterity. The "Free Floating Dysfunctional Family Circus Archive", as posted several locations, has remained a staple of Internet culture ever since. The archive can be found here. Feel free to dowload it and put it up on the Internet Archive for a better long-term preservation of the comic. Unless, of course, someone's already done it before, in which case all you have to do is to add a link to it on this page. Ghosts & Angels in Family Circus. Growing up, I always thought Family Circus was terrible. I’d pull up to the breakfast table, getting ready to peep the funny pages, looking for some great goofs. There was always good and bad, that’s just the system. But Bil Keane’s comic strip about family life was the most frustrating with what I considered its non-jokes. This is probably partially because at this time in my life I was really leaning into edgelord comedy, which is of course, the antithesis of Family Circus . And I always wondered: how is Family Circus still being published? It’s not funny, nor is it particularly interesting. But as an adult, wow, that question is so easily answered. It’s exactly why it’s still being published fifty-eight years after its release in 1960: it’s vanilla as hell. That shit is so relatable with its traditional family values and Christian overtones, it’s the dream palette for white bread Americans. Bits from the turn of the century. Recently, for some godforsaken reason, I became a little obsessed with the strip (I guess it’s more so a panel), that was the butt of so many jokes for me as a teenager (and many others, everyone talks shit on Family Circus ). I found myself wondering, as you definitely might, “wow, is Family Circus better than I’ve always given it credit for? Maybe it’s just an Americana slice of life comic where we can all enjoy kids saying the darnedest things.” So I did what any normal person would do, and read a shitton of family circus comics. We’re talking post & pre the death of Bil Keane, but all mostly from the mid-2000s. Jeff and Bil began working on the strip together before Bil’s death in 2011, and their dual byline remains today. After grinding through panels, your boy really hit the slopes by watching some pretty old TV specials. And I’ll be the first to admit, it’s definitely funnier than I remember. This includes both Jeff and Bil’s stuff, they’ve got some chops. Ultimately, though, I still don’t love it. As an adult kids saying dumb or weird shit resonates a lot more with me than it did as a kid. But when you imagine a middle aged man sitting at a desk coming up with that stuff, and then you read a couple of strips decades apart that have the same joke it loses a most of its charm. I say this because Bil’s original inspiration, including Family Circus ’s current author, Jeff, is all grown up. Who’s to say really, but there’s no feasible way you could squeeze a joke daily out of the dumb shit your kids say. The reason we’re all here though, is to discuss when Family Circus gets sentimental. And it really only gets sentimental about one fucking thing. And that’s GRANDAD, baby. To fully clarify, we have to fucking get into it, so I guess let’s fucking get into it. Family Circus has five main characters: Daddy, Mommy, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and PJ. The more secondary characters include pets Barfy, Sam and Kittycat, and grandparents, Grandma Carne and, you guessed it, Grandma & Grandad Keane. I’ll also quickly point out Morrie, who’s the only black character in the strip. I’ll discuss him more later, but he was created by Keane as a shout out to his contemporary, and the creator of Wee Pals , Morrie Turner. As far as I can tell, Grandad has always been dead canonically. This is Daddy’s, aka Bil’s, father, and Grandma Keane’s loving husband. It’s possible he was alive in early versions of Family Circus , but as early as 1979 he is no longer with the cast. Not to be misleading though, because Grandad makes appearances all the fucking time as an MF angel. To clue you in, in the canon of Family Circus we experience both heaven and angels interacting with our earthly characters. There are plenty of scenes where one of the kids has something silly to say about church or prayer or heaven, but we definitely get a taste of the real deal, too. And I’m also not talking about the notorious “NOT ME” ghost who is responsible for various acts of mayhem in the Keane household. The various ghostly lil fuckers ruining Mommy & Daddy’s lives. It’s possible that I’m the only one, but I actually think this shit is bonkers. Of course it could be said that Family Circus is fun and silly and why not just throw some angels in for a couple fun bits with our faves Dolly & Jeffy? It sure is fun times, remember when we had a laugh with 1979’s A Family Circus Christmas where Daddy can’t find the Christmas tree topper that his father made and nearly cries at the thought of a Christmas without it? Me too! Fortunately, Jeffy calls Grandad’s ghost down from heaven who tells him where the tree topper is, saving Christmas. Bil Keane was quoted in the 90’s as saying, “ I don’t just try to be funny. Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.” I wish this were more true. The ratio is about 85% traditional kid jokes to 15% Grandad’s dead or I feel bad for Grandma. The heart tugs are incredibly personal, which I like, but that’s the only tug he seems capable of. The strips featuring angels vary piece by piece on how much they bum me out. Some are flat out jokes of course, but plenty of them are just, “Mom and I miss dad and I wish he would come to us the only way he reasonably could: as an angel.” Fun times! Here we learn the angels are invisible, but have a corporeal form. I see dead people deadass, jeffy, as in grandad’s dead ass is literally here rn Kids say such silly things, it’s funny because his ghost is LITERALLY still with us. dumbass. Let’s lean into sad Grandma. Absolutely ruthless from Billy Shouts out to Jeffy for being empathetic & being able to commune with the dead Sorry, but “his build” is insane. Billy is like 8 years old (if that’s the joke, sorry) Foolish children, Grandad has been whispering me the deets the entire time this is a real bummer, but I can’t help but wonder what Grandad was in the middle of. Bonus round. Here’s a Family Circus strip from the anniversary of MLK Jr.’s assassination in 2018: Yes, that’s right, Dolly can’t see race. Yikes. Also, as the only black character in the strip, it’s important that Morrie is a diehard MLK stan, and carries around his portrait. Clearly there’s some stuff that I’m not feeling too good about. Wildly enough, I think the comic has become, or maybe always was, Keane’s perfect optimistic paradise. A place where dead relatives are still around, a place where white kids are having a blast in suburbia, a place where mommy cooks and looks after the kids while daddy works. It’s amazing to me how much it feels like comic hasn’t changed. In more recent strips written by Jeff Keane, Ghost Grandad is still a real staple, somehow staying true to Bil’s 85-15 ratio that I made up. I can only assume that with the family line of succession, even though the art and character design has remained the same, that Bil Keane, creator of Ghost Grandad, has become Ghost Grandad himself. What was once personal for Bil, is now personal for Jeff. And ultimately, as much shit as I might talk, that’s exactly what I appreciate and respect about the legacy of Family Circus . After Bil Keane’s death, he unknowingly (or did he?!) inserted himself into strips he had written a decade prior. Love The Family Circus. Download full Love The Family Circus Book or read online anytime anywhere, Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle. Click Get Books and find your favorite books in the online library. Create free account to access unlimited books, fast download and ads free! We cannot guarantee that Love The Family Circus book is in the library. READ as many books as you like (Personal use). Love the Family Circus. Author : Bil Keane Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub Release Date : 1983 Genre: Humor Pages : 104 ISBN 10 : 0836220072. Cartoons poke fun at the domestic life of a family and the mischief of the children. The Comic Art Collection Catalog. Author : Michigan State University. Libraries. Special Collections Division Publisher : Greenwood Release Date : 1993 Genre: Social Science Pages : 1435 ISBN 10 : UOM:39015054273027. This is the most comprehensive dictionary available on comic art. The catalog provides detailed information about more than 60,000 cataloged books, magazines, scrapbooks, fanzines, comic books, and other materials in the Michigan State University Libraries, America's premiere library comics collection. Each book or serial is listed by title, with entries as appropriate under author, subject, and series. Besides the traditional books and magazines, significant collections of microfilm, sound recordings, vertical files, and realia (mainly T-shirts) are included. Comics and related materials are grouped by nationality and by genre. Comics Media. Author : Hillary L. Chute Publisher : University of Chicago Press Release Date : 2014-07-11 Genre: Literary Criticism Pages : 272 ISBN 10 : 9780226239088. The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success. Comics & Media reflects that, bringing together an amazing array of contributors--creators and critics alike--to discuss the state, future, and potential of the medium. Loaded with full-color reproductions of work by such legends as R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, and Lynda Barry, the book addresses the place of comics in both a contemporary and historical context. Essays by such high-profile figures as Tom Gunning, N. Katherine Hayles, Patrick Jagoda, and W. J. T. Mitchell address a stunning range of topics, including the place of comics in the history of aesthetics, changes to popular art forms, digital humanities, and ongoing tensions between new and old media. The result is a substantial step forward for our understanding of what comics are and can be, and the growing place they hold in our culture. The Sullivans Boxed Set Books 1 3 Contemporary Romance. Author : Bella Andre Publisher : Oak Press, LLC Release Date : 2017-06-01 Genre: Fiction Pages : 900 ISBN 10 : 9781938127946. The Sullivans Books 1–3: The Look of Love, From This Moment on, Can’t Help Falling in Love. The Pickle Family Circus. Author : Terry Lorant Publisher : Chronicle Books Llc Release Date : 1986 Genre: Performing Arts Pages : 152 ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106010567607. Describes the philosophy of the Pickle Family Circus, traces its history, and looks at its clowns, jugglers, and acrobats. Count Your Blessings. Author : Bil Keane Publisher : Focus on the Family Pub Release Date : 1995 Genre: Humor Pages : 128 ISBN 10 : 1561793663. There's something special about children, and there's something special about the way Bill Keane captures them in his popular "Family Circus" comic strips. This heartwarming collection combines faith and family themes for hours of smiles and laughter.give them reassurance that their God will never abandon them.and makes use of what has been developed in 12 step, self-help and dysfunctional family-related groups. Careless Love. Author : Peter Guralnick Publisher : Hachette UK Release Date : 2020-04-30 Genre: Biography & Autobiography Pages : 784 ISBN 10 : 9780349144467. Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received unprecedented accolades. This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis's life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in Germany in 1958 and ending with his death in Memphis in 1977, Careless Love chronicles the unraveling of the dream that once shone so brightly, homing in on the complex playing-out of Elvis's relationship with his Machiavellian manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It's a breathtaking drama that places the events of a too often mistold tale in a fresh, believable, and understandable context. This is the quintessential American story, encompassing race, class, wealth, sex, music, religion, and personal transformation. Written with grace, sensitivity, and passion, Careless Love is a unique contribution to our understanding of American popular culture and the nature of success, giving us true insight at last into one of the most misunderstood public figures of our times. The Family Circus Album. Author : Bil Keane Publisher : Ballantine Books Release Date : 1984 Genre: Humor Pages : 142 ISBN 10 : 0449900983. Selected cartoons from the past twenty-five years of the comic strip take a humorous look at family life, holidays, vacation trips, grandparents, television, and school. Family Circus. Author : Bil Keane Publisher : Release Date : 1996-06-21 Genre: Pages : ISBN 10 : 0842388567. Daily, positive reminders of family love through Bil Keane's Family Circus cartoons. Contemporary Graphic Artists. Author : Publisher : Release Date : 1986 Genre: Artists Pages : ISBN 10 : UOM:39015009269690. Contemporary Graphic Artists. Author : Maurice Horn Publisher : Gale Cengage Release Date : 1986 Genre: Animators Pages : 272 ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105033020954. The Family Circus Memories. Author : Bil Keane Publisher : Ballantine Books Release Date : 1989 Genre: Humor Pages : 94 ISBN 10 : 0449902587. Cartoons offer a humorous look at family life, valentines, Easter, Mother's Day, bedtime, the past, grandparents, and Christmas.