The Comics Curmudgeon

I'm sure there's tons of this sort of thing online, but I doubt much (if any) of the rest of it is this funny. The impressive thing is that no alterations are done to the strip itself. How someone can muster the effort to unfurl such involved back stories for Family Circus characters is beyond me, but it's worth your time to savor. Here's an excerpt:

"They say that smell is strongly associated with memories, and when she got just the faintest whiff of mimeographic fluid from the papers she kept in the chest, suddenly she was twenty-one years old again, and working as an assistant in that downtown office. There weren’t many women in business jobs in those days, but her boss, Mr. Franklin, seemed to take her opinions about things seriously. They spent a lot of time in his office, talking about sales strategies and advertising, and somehow she barely even noticed it when it became something more — something much more — than just a business relationship..."

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Family Circus art ©King Features Syndicate
Comics Curmudgeon excerpt ©Joshua Fruhlinger