2003-04-18
Original: 2003-04-18 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Main comic (single panel):
A group of children clusters together. In the back center stands a sinister, looming figure wrapped in a gray shroud with a wide grinning mouth full of teeth, wearing a small red top hat and holding a skull-topped cane. Around and in front of it, several wild-eyed, grimacing children are bunched together, some with flame-like or spiky hair, in red, blue, green, and purple clothing. One child on the left lets out a shout.
Child (in speech bubble): "WWOOOO!"
Caption below the panel: The kids from “Family Circus” meet their cousins from “Circus Family.”
Votey:
A bald, bearded man with a sour expression sits at a desk, resting his chin on his hand, with a thought bubble above him.
Man (thought bubble): "TAKIN' ON THE ISSUES."
A group of children clusters together. In the back center stands a sinister, looming figure wrapped in a gray shroud with a wide grinning mouth full of teeth, wearing a small red top hat and holding a skull-topped cane. Around and in front of it, several wild-eyed, grimacing children are bunched together, some with flame-like or spiky hair, in red, blue, green, and purple clothing. One child on the left lets out a shout.
Child (in speech bubble): "WWOOOO!"
Caption below the panel: The kids from “Family Circus” meet their cousins from “Circus Family.”
Votey:
A bald, bearded man with a sour expression sits at a desk, resting his chin on his hand, with a thought bubble above him.
Man (thought bubble): "TAKIN' ON THE ISSUES."
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: a creepy crowd of cartoon children crammed together, drawn in a wild scribbly style with bulging eyes and gritted teeth. Looming behind them is a sinister gray-shrouded figure with a huge toothy grin, a little red top hat, and a skull-topped cane. One kid on the left yells "WWOOOO!" in a speech bubble. Caption underneath: "The kids from 'Family Circus' meet their cousins from 'Circus Family.'" The joke flips the wholesome comic-strip name 'The Family Circus' into the menacing 'Circus Family' of grotesque carnival kids.
Votey: a bald, bearded man slumps at a desk with his chin on his hand, looking unimpressed, thinking in a bubble: "TAKIN' ON THE ISSUES."
Votey: a bald, bearded man slumps at a desk with his chin on his hand, looking unimpressed, thinking in a bubble: "TAKIN' ON THE ISSUES."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.