Family Circus Funnies

[Mercutio]

I'm a big fan of sequential art (aka Comic strips and comic books). While I was looking at some books of comic strips I was thinking about buying, I ran across something that I find hysterical.

A little background: Family Circus is an obnoxiously unfunny comic strip about raising young children. Basically, if you think a five year old saying "pasketti" instead of "spaghetti" is funny, Family Circus is right up your alley.

Anyway, some extremely dedicated person or persons has taken it upon himself to write reviews of each of the probably 40 or 50 collections of Family Circus strips available through Amazon.com.

If you've got a couple minutes to kill, the reviews are damn near deathless art.

A sample:

Keane moves English to its highest level
July 26, 2002
Among the Black Mountain College circle of poets Keane's precise use of English has been legend ever since that night in 1949 when he tore into Charles Olson's abuse of the phrase "hopefully." In Dressing Myself, Keane presents us with 29 precise poems exploring the erotic topic of dressing one's self. His prose is dead on, working with precision he refuses to sodomize nondeviant syntax, and his supporting art is, as always, lifelike and breathtaking. Some readers may be turned off my his depiction of Thel's dressing habits, but John Ashcroft was reportedly moved to tears by this depiction of Zen dressing rituals. A must read for all who dress themselves. A work of art.

 

[Bartender]

I think that is bit much to read out of Family Circus. I think much more is said (perhaps to me) by Al Jaffee and Gary Larson.

 

[SteveC]

The Family Circus is absolutely the unfunniest comic there is. The only daily comic I find worth reading is Dilbert. I really miss The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes. Those were truely classics.

Steve

 

[Mercutio]

I think that's the point, Bartender.

 

[Bartender]

I think that's the point, Bartender.

Sorry Mercutio, another one of my understatements.

 

[Mercutio]

You have to remember the ""

Some of my favorites:

Most of these are available through either ucomics.com or comics.com.

Dilbert
Doonesbury
Get Fuzzy
Boondocks
Zits
Arlo & Janis
Rose is Rose

And of course the late, lamented Bloom County/Outland, Calvin and Hobbes and Far Side. I'd add to that Citizen Dog .

Then there's the crap that makes it into almost every paper:
BC
Hagar the Horrible
Garfield
Hi and Lois
Family Circus

I have no idea why strips like those are still published.

 

[Bartender]

I also enjoy Non Sequitur. Here is a recent illustration:

http://www.msnbc.com/comics/daily.asp?sFile=nq020801

 

[Groltz]

Then there's the crap that makes it into almost every paper:
BC
Hagar the Horrible
Garfield
Hi and Lois
Family Circus

You forgot the worst one of all ------> Cathy

 

[Stereodude]

You guys should find some Dysfunctional Family Circus. It's far more entertaining.

http://www.metronet.com/~intell/ed/dfc/

http://www.humorvillage.com/funpages/familycircus.htm

Stereodude

 

[P5-133XL]

Then there's the crap that makes it into almost every paper:
BC
Hagar the Horrible
Garfield
Hi and Lois
Family Circus

You forgot the worst one of all ------> Cathy

You forgot the worst one of all ------> Marmaduke

 

[Will Rickards WT]

I visit this one in addition to dilbert daily:
http://www.userfriendly.org/
Sometimes funny sometimes not.

 

[Mercutio]

... and while we're at it,
Nancy
Heathcliff
Blondie
Beetle Bailey
Mallard Fillmore
Wizard of Id
Crock

... and a few more that I enjoy:
PreTeena (yup, I'm surprised too, but it's funny)
LuAnne (same deal, moreso since it's scripted by a man)
Mutts (Homage to "Krazy Kat")
Life is Hell
K Chronicles

The sad thing is, most of the strips I like aren't in local papers.