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On a daily basis, I read the Post Dispatch for one of my doses of current affairs, and to see where the Cardinals or the Blues are in the standings. Part of my paper reading rituals is to save the comics pages for last. I can’t get my day started without a cup of coffee, reading Get Fuzzy, Sally Forth, or Mark Trail. The first comic I have to read though is Family Circus, just to get the painful part out of the way. My fiance and I can’t help but yell out “Ooooohhh, barf!!!” every time we read it. We just can’t help ourselves, we know it’s going to be an overdose of sugary badness that will make our brains queasy, but like a scab you can’t help but pick at, or a car crash you can’t help but slow down and look at,I read Family Circus everyday.

By now, we all know about the remixing of Garfield on the website Garfield minus Garfield. A new incarnation of this concept takes my least liked, but unintentionally funny comic strip family and combines quotes from German philosopher Frederich Nietzsche, which strangely, makes Family Circus more endearing to me. The great thing about
Nietzsche Family Circus is how far on opposite ends of the spectrum something as sugary and blandly wholesome as Family Circus is, and as nihilistic and bleak as Frederich Nietzsche’s philosophy is. The website is designed to combine a random quote by Nietzsche with a random Family Circus strip resulting in a hilarious, yet sobering pairing.

I’m hoping that there will be a book in this sometime like Garfield Minus Garfield, if the publishers of Family Circus aren’t too enraged over this blaspheming of their creation. I suppose Ziggy had better watch out before someone creates Dystopian Ziggy and mashes Ziggy cartoons with quotes from the George Orwell novel 1984…hmmm….that gives me an idea…

-Jim

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