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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Hello Grandma by Bil Keane Hello Grandma? by Bil Keane Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Hello Grandma by Bil Keane Hello Grandma? by Bil Keane. MISC. MAGS/BOOKS. Last Update: 12/12/06. Want to order something? E-mail me for an order form. To pay for your order via � click on the icon. I accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express. And e-Check through PayPal only. My e-mail address and PayPal ID is [email protected]. There is a small fee involved when using PayPal. Please consult PayPal�s Fee Schedule to learn more. The standard fee is 2.2% plus 30c per transaction, So please be prepared to add appropriate amount in. addition to purchase and shipping amount. SERGIO ARAGONES� �GROO THE WANDERER� # 22 (2)vg/fi,1.75. # 23 (2)vg/fi,1.75. # 24 (2) vg/fi,1.75. # 25 (2)vg/fi,1.75. # 26 vg/fi, 1.75. # 27 vg/fi, 1.75. # 37 vg/fi,1.75. # 40 vg/fi 1.75. # 43 g/vg 1.25. # 45 vg/fi, 1.75. # 47 vg/fi, 1.75. # 51 vg/fi, 1.75. # 52 vg/fi, 1.75. # 55 vg/fi, 1.75. #87 vg/fi, 4.00. #88 vg/fi, 4.00. #83 vg/fi, 3.00. #119 Feb. �81 fi, 4.00. 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.
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