Did You Read That Review ? (42 page)

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Another collection of the heartwarming and hilarious Family Circus cartoons of Bil Keane, featured daily in nearly 1,500 newspapers worldwide!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

It’s like chocolate for your eyeballs

By
Johnny Tremain
, July 28, 2011

To experience Family Circus, is to stare into the face of God himself. I recently spent a long hot summer afternoon outdoors wrapped in a camouflaged snuggie, with a piping hot mug of Swiss Miss in one hand, and this book delicately splayed open in the other. Exploring the subtle complexities of this, yet another, Keansian masterpiece, prompted me to re-examine everything I thought I knew about the universe and my place in it. This flash of genius, known only as Family Circus, is truly why the caged bird sings. Indeed, this work of art makes Maya Angelou look like an illiterate hobo upstart who, as they say, does not have her tray table in the fully upright and locked position. Keane can flash me with his genius any time. Although his works have been callously relegated to the category of “comics,” this underappreciation and lack of recognition of something so worth recognizing, only serves to highlight the poignant, philosophically-laden messages contained within his short quips,
and the plight of humankind in general. If only I could liquefy this book and take a bath in it, I would achieve total nirvana.

62 of 68 people found the following review helpful

The secret revealed!!!

By
Johny Bottom “Insane and lonely guitarist”
, December 20, 2007

Hear me people! The scribble on the front cover held up by PJ is not an original scribble! I knew I had seen it before, but I could not quite place it. Finally like a bolt of lightning, I sat up in bed at 2:45 AM and knew where I saw that scribble! I quickly opened my bottom drawer and pulled out my copy of the Necronomican. It was right there on page XVIII!! I only had two hours before I started my shift at McDonald’s. It was Thursday morning and that meant I had to be there very early to unload the truck delivery. I looked at the cover of this Family Circus book and could not unlock my gaze on Jeffy. “What does this say?” “What does this say?” “What does this say?” It mocked me, it called me, it demanded my attention. Then from out of nowhere I got an idea. I opened this Family Circus novel to the LAST page. I then proceeded to read the book BACKWARD! Then true horror struck my heart. Start with the last cartoon, write down the last letter of each caption and work your way backward to the first cartoon where Dolly is trying to take the skin off a cupcake. When you have all the letters written down, this message will appear…“Thel is the goddess of lust and desire. She lives for the pleasure of the flesh. Prices slashed at Jerrys, all items must go. Buy one spatula get one free.” Cold chills ran up and down my spine as I deciphered the what I now call the “Da Keane Code.” I have quit my job at McDonald’s and now work full time at home with a mountain of Family Circus books, the Necronomican, and the Book of Revelation. I believe I can pinpoint the exact time of the Rapture. I will report my findings as I discover them.

9 of 15 people found the following review helpful

The Twentieth-Century American Ideal Deconstructed

By
J. Kowalski “mumon”
, November 7, 2008

Bill Keane seriously created culture, a mirror to suburban American life in the mid-20th century. This critique was something that was fittingly read once a week on the day one would regularly spend mornings worshiping a guy who was nailed to some wood for having the temerity to say that people should be nice to each other. It was telling though that the words and terms such as “napalm,” “CIA,” “assassination,” “race riot,” “LSD,” “lynching” and a whole host of terms were kept out of Keane’s hermetically sealed idyllic world. Keane was a subtle propagandist, but let’s face it, it’s not BS-ing to say this. Keane was “safe,” unlike the guy who did Zippy the Pinhead. But I get more of a kick out of reading Zippy to my kids than I ever would with Keane. Kids ran around with dotted lines marking their trails though.

3.4 out of 5 stars

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