I always liked Family Circus, until I picked up a collection at a used bookstore. I went through that book in one sitting, and it’s probably why my A1C is too high 30+ years later.
Years ago, The Daily Texan (UT-Austin’ student paper) had a spoof of the Circus; I wish I could find it online. It had “Can you help little Jef Billy make it to the registrar’s office to register for next semester?” There was a dotted line all over campus, with the interesting things that had distracted Jef Billy(e.g. a preserved, dissected, and pregnant cat; a sealed doorway with the graffito “For the love of God, Montresor!”). When he reaches the registrar’s office it said “Oh no, Jef Billy! 5:00 PM! You missed the deadline! Better luck next semester!” A different cartoonist, in the same paper IIRC, drew The Famine Circus. (This was way back when Chris Ware was a Daily Texan cartoonist though I don’t think he was involved with either of the comics I’ve described.)
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