Family Circus' witty takes on family life

**Shine** · 12 Feb 2003, 11:38 AM

Is that real? Those little bastards murdered their father.

**maruchan** · 12 Feb 2003, 11:47 AM

um.. tha twas funny sorry but it was..

anywyas whats the story of making fun of family circus. In high school a friend of mine, told me how the author was very consertive, and someone made a website that made fun of all the cirus shorts..

so whats the story..

**Rhydant** · 12 Feb 2003, 12:28 PM

well, seeing as most cartoonists draw their cartoons ahead of time (meaning they draw 'em about a week ahead of when they get published) this seem a little fishy to me. and the dates are just inconclusive.

but ill be damned if i didnt laugh at the paper plane hitting the building.

**Ashen Victor** · 12 Feb 2003, 02:40 PM

Originally posted by maruchan
um.. tha twas funny sorry but it was..

anywyas whats the story of making fun of family circus. In high school a friend of mine, told me how the author was very consertive, and someone made a website that made fun of all the cirus shorts..

so whats the story..

dysfunctional family circus. some guy wiped out the original text and made up his own captions to a whole lotta them. bill keene didn't like that so he got a court order to shut down the dudes site. do a search for 'dysfunctional family circus' and you'll get quite a few pages talking about it.

i've also got an old issue of either MAD or Cracked that has their own version of dysfunctional family circus. i'll scan them up later if i'm not feeling lazy.