Family Circus

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The Family Circus (originally called The Family Circle until the magazine - a publication old grannies use to masturbate with while dreaming of when men wanted to fuck them - sued and forced the name change) is a comic strip created and written by cartoonist Bil Keane and inked/colored by his son, Jeff, whose terrorist antics in his pre-pubescent pre-prozac childhood inspired many of his father's depictions of what the mythical suburban life of the equally mythical nuclear family was supposed to be like. Lulz! The real truth was that Keane beat his kids like every other parent did in those days because if they didn't they'd turn out like Charles Starkweather or Eddie Haskell!

Despite the disproving of the myths about the 'burbs and the nukes, this strip is somehow still in print. Because Keane is a one-joke writer, the strip has always used a single captioned panel with a round border, which is why he -duh!- called it the Family Circle when it started. Many have noted that the circle is simply Keane's attempt to put a Goatse in every newspaper he can, tho without the obligatory hands.

The strip is still circulated world-wide, which probably explains why towel-headed, camel-fucking terrorists want to blow up the USA. Shit, if Keane had done the strip in the 30's and set the family in France, we'd have let Hitler keep it!

[edit] Dysfunctional Family Circus

The Dysfunctional Family Circus is what a series of semi-linked parodies of The Family Circus. Most have featuring Keane's artwork with altered captions - usually involving such tasty subjects as incest, cannibalism, pedophilia, bestiality, Satanism, rape and even ritual murder. Although taking Keane's strips, changing the captions, and posting them on the office bulletin boards has been going on since Keane first upchucked the strip in the 1960's, it wasn't until 1989 that people started collecting them in homemade booklets and selling them in independent hippie-run record stores and head shops.

The most notorious - read: lulz^3 - version was that run by Greg Galcik from 1994 to 1999. Galcik's version featured original Keane art without captions, and allowed DFC fans to suggest their own captions, especially those which betrayed their own tortured childhoods. From these Galcik - and several other editors, some of whom reportedly are major Wikipedos in their own right - would select those they considered to be the funniest and most original, which would then be saved in an online archive. The lulz ranged from totally disgusting to probably illegal just to think about.

In 1999, Galcik got a cease-and-decist-or-we'll-fuck-you-up letter from King Features Syndicate - the distributors of Family Circus and the sodomites who marked the 75th anniversary of Popeye the Sailor by letting he and Bluto be gay for an orange juice commercial - demanding that he cease his DFC efforts. While Galcik had a good case under parody protections, after a phone call where he and Keane got all emo with each other, Galcik chickened out and dropped the DFC after Keane let him complete his 500th DFC. Much to the chagrin of Keane and Galcik, numerous archives of Galcik's DFC and the earlier works can be found all over the World Wide Web, as well as in Taliban and Al Queda training manuals on why America is the Great Satan!

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Witty!	Heart warming!	Endearing!	Charming!
Innocent!	Comforting!	Keeping to the Faith!	Family values!
Hearkening back to a simpler time!	Straight to the point!	Dysfunctional	FAGGOTRY!
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