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It's a comic by a guy who would be dead 20 years ago if he didn't have enough money to have his life extended. It takes place in the 1960's when Sudam Husein froze time. Now, year's later, they're still an ordinary family with two parents who are voting for John F. Kennedy.

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  • Family Circus
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  • It's a comic by a guy who would be dead 20 years ago if he didn't have enough money to have his life extended. It takes place in the 1960's when Sudam Husein froze time. Now, year's later, they're still an ordinary family with two parents who are voting for John F. Kennedy.
  • The name originates from its controversial depiction of American families. Although most of the latter are built on the picture perfect cooperation between a couple living in total harmony and children (preferably two boys and a girl) diligently submitting to their parents' advice and having fun doing their homework, this one represents a more depraved facade of the middle class culture in which children sometimes put certain things in question momentarily, or worse, in which parents present certain slight vulnerabilities that may or may not amount to some form of virtual irony. Hence "Family" which represents good, and "Circus" which represents clowns, who are evil. Needless to say this wouldn't have gone far when the Hays Code was enforced. Because of its spicy takes on highly popular su
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  • The name originates from its controversial depiction of American families. Although most of the latter are built on the picture perfect cooperation between a couple living in total harmony and children (preferably two boys and a girl) diligently submitting to their parents' advice and having fun doing their homework, this one represents a more depraved facade of the middle class culture in which children sometimes put certain things in question momentarily, or worse, in which parents present certain slight vulnerabilities that may or may not amount to some form of virtual irony. Hence "Family" which represents good, and "Circus" which represents clowns, who are evil. Needless to say this wouldn't have gone far when the Hays Code was enforced. Because of its spicy takes on highly popular subjects, needless to say that every goddamn person in the universe loves this comic, even people who have never read it, although its widespread distribution in Japan seems to have some mysterious correlation with its population's high suicide rate.
  • It's a comic by a guy who would be dead 20 years ago if he didn't have enough money to have his life extended. It takes place in the 1960's when Sudam Husein froze time. Now, year's later, they're still an ordinary family with two parents who are voting for John F. Kennedy.
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