The Family CircusCreated and written by American cartoonist Bil Keane, The Family Circus debuted on February 28th, 1960. The comic centers around Bil, Thelma, and their four children: Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J. The strip's parental characters are based on the author and his wife, Thelma. Having appeared in 1,500 newspapers over the past four decades, it is considered one of the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world.Dysfunctional Family CircusAnonymous of The Family Circus have been making parodies of the original comic since as early as in 1989 allegedly distributed through anonymous networks of chain mails, nightclubs or coffee houses in America/Europe. They could also be acquired through mail or fax to people who requested copies via Usenet groups.
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These parodies consisted of imitative illustrations and altered captions, often discussing adult-only topics and serious vices like adultery, drug abuse, animal cruelty and cannibalism.In 1992, Brian Boling was attributed as creating a cut and paste zine compilation of DFC images for his friends. Without having known of the earlier version, he compiled over 100 parodies of the comic.SpreadHowever, the most well known version of Dysfunctional Family Circus was created by Greg Galcik in June 1995, with a generator hosted on SpinWeBe. The page offered an automatic caption generator for the visitors to submit their own iterations, the best of which were selected by Galick and a number of editors for front-page publication.Thematically, the tones of the captions were similar to the original parodies but users also added jokes about breaking the fourth wall, in the process criticizing the artistic work of Bil Keane.On December 19th, 2007, Driven By Boredom began hosting Dysfunctional Family Circus images. Several other sites began resharing or hosting the images such as The Free-Floating Dysfunctional Family Circus Archives, The Other Family, Associated Publisher, and a single-topic Blogspot. Notable ExamplesCopyright InfringementIn September 1999, Galcik received a cease-and-desist notice from King Features Syndicate, the publishers of The Family Circus, on account of copyright violations.
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Fans of the website did not receive the news well and many viewers followed up with bold statements in protest.
Sep 21, 2018 - Well, Hello: Thirty-One Years of Welcome to My Home. Who created the parody video called Welcome to Our House with Jackie Clarke.
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