Dysfunctional Family Circus

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The Circus Family Dysfunction is the name of some old parody of the syndicated comic strip The Family Circus , featuring Bil Keane artwork with altered information, or (less) original artwork made to looks like a targeted strip. First distributed anonymously by mail and fax in 1989, in 1994 various versions of it began to appear on the World Wide Web.

Video Dysfunctional Family Circus

Buklet DFC

The Dysfunctional Family Circus was created and began to circulate anonymously in 1989 as a series of books found in book and record stores, coffee shops and nightclubs in several US and European cities, including San Francisco, Chicago, New York, London and Madrid. They are also distributed by mail to those who make requests and post their mailing addresses to select Usenet groups.

The booklet series includes 15 titles:

1. Grandmother Was not Dead!
2. Look, I'm telling you Cats Can Kiss the Dead!
3. Ibex, My Ass! It's a Goat!
4. Who Wants to See Hamsters Dance?
5. Eat Snow Hobo!
6. Grandma Starts to Germinate!
7. All It's Back, Except One Tablespoon!
8. This Person Is Dead!
9. Wait, I Think My Stuck is Stuck!
10. Boy, This Dog Is Fucked!
11. Oh Yes? Well, Kiss It!
12. Him, We, Motel, Tonight!
13. Crotch Shot!
14. Mommy! PJ's Tryin 'to Get Out!
15. Shit! That's the Priest Boy!

Each booklet is measured 4-1/4 "x 5.5" and given to an anonymous publisher whose name is a unique anagram "Bil Keane." The French translation volume # 4, entitled "Qui Veut Voir Un Hamster Dansant?" distributed by mail, like untold volumes entitled "Guess Where I Can Fit This!" The booklets gave birth to two annual calendars, a T-shirt, and a set of beverage coasters, before retiring.

Publications

The first two problems are 16 pages each. The three issues expanded to 40 pages. The remaining problem in the main series is 32 pages each. The initial press executed for each issue is 250 copies. Problems five and eight each have 100 secondary copies.

Some of the cartoons from the booklets are reprinted in the Anderson Valley Advertiser in Boonville, California, and Browbeat magazine. Others are reproduced in fanzines and as inserts for CDs by the National Hardwood Floor Association and others. Only one cartoon (# 5, page 14) that uses original cartoon text ("The party is not over yet - I just got home to get my siren and handcuffs").

Maps Dysfunctional Family Circus

SpinnWebe

Pioneer

Often called "DFC", the Dysfunctional Family circus was first brought to the World-Wide Web by Mark Jason Dominus around March 1994. This version featured one (later expanded into four) original Keane cartoons without explanation, and ran the submission software to allow viewers to suggest their own information. Description is largely unfiltered. It was stopped after about a year, and this concept was adopted by Greg Galcik.

Galcic Version

The Galcik version became the most famous (or perhaps most famous) and ran on SpinnWebe from June 1995 to 1999 by running exactly 500 comics. It draws between 50,000 and 70,000 page views per day. Galcik and other editors will select the text they consider the funniest and most original, which will then be stored in the online archive. The humor of this text ranges from what many people consider disgusting to the surrealists, and from the low eyebrows to the brain. Bil Keane noticed the existence of the site early and initially did not mind, stating that the joke was sometimes better than his own joke. He then sends a stop and prevent letter that causes the site to be deleted.

Some jokes that flourished over 500 strips of the series. Repeating themes include incest and child abuse jokes, and aspects of the art itself, such as a void without trait (like Keane's comics often have no background), and Jeffy's Hypno-Hair (his wavy hair with which he hypnotizes others in the family ). Parents of infidelity against each other are often a source of humor, with Thel claiming not to know who the real children's father and homosexual lover Bil "Uncle" Roy is invisible. The other joke involved was breaking the fourth wall and commenting on what Bil drew on the strip that day, just as Thel was vacuuming with a lot of toys strewn around, one of the titles was "That bastard Bil will draw all of this here someday. void! ", and the children realize that they are trapped in a" circle "that underlines the strip, like when the scene is full of Christmas presents, the caption being delivered is" I say, yes we can hawk more stuff if you just made a circle greater than! "

End of Galcik's DFC

In September 1999, Galcik received a warning letter from King Features Syndicate (publisher of The Family Circus ), citing copyright infringement on the site. Despite the support of the site fans, Galcik fulfilled after a phone conversation with Keane. In his closing remarks, Galcik says while he believes that Dysfunctional Family Circus can be maintained as a work of interactive parody, he has developed respect for Long and sustained efforts by Bil Keane. Galcik notes that Keane is polite and friendly in his request for the strip to end, suggesting that the parodied character is based on Keane's own family. Keane also agreed to allow Galcik to continue the strip for an extra week to reach the # 500 strip. The description for the 500th strip and the last one was completed in November 1999. Despite King Features's wishes, series archives have repeatedly appeared on various sites across the web.

SpinnWebe continues to run "It's A Dysfunctional Life" (later renamed "A1-AAA AmeriCaptions"), which is similar to Dysfunctional Family Circus, but uses photos submitted by the sender instead of the Family Circus cartoon.

Themes

References

External links

• Family Archive Free Floating Archiving Dysfunction v1.1.2 - redrafted archive of the SpinnWebe Disfunctional Family image and text
• Horselover Fat's Inside Guide to DFC - An explanation of the Spinn website.
• Family Circus Parody Folds Tent
• IADL Archive (This is Dysfunctional Life), successor to Spinnwebe version of Family Circus Dysfunction

Source of the article : Wikipedia