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Family Circus, 8/30/05

I think that, about ten years from now, we’ll see Dolly sitting on the curb outside a 7-Eleven repeating this exact phrase. Except instead of “Smelling these crayons,” she’ll say “Huffing this paint.” And instead of “think of school and Mrs. Clarke,” she’ll say “dizzy as hell, yo.”

I’m betting the MMMMMMM!! will still be hovering over her head, though. Or at least she’ll see it there.

Meanwhile, I don’t have time to futz around with the CafePress store tonight, but I think we’ve found a hilarious phrase to print on workout clothes:

The great thing about these out-of-context panels and quips from Gil Thorp is they don’t make appreciably more sense in context.

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Family Circus, 8/9/05

I think this panel’s a repeat, but tormenting little Jeffy never gets old. Check out the sad look on daddy’s face: is he grumpy about the hot sand himself, or mortified that his son is making a public spectacle of his wussosity?

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Family Circus, 7/29-30/05

Jeffy, Jeffy, Jeffy Keane: always the observer in the cavalcade of family dysfunction. Check out the little tyke’s blank, uncomprehending expression in these two panels. In the first, he doesn’t seem to pick up on the significance of the Cathy-style sweatballs flying off of Billy’s head as the elder brother faces maternal wrath for some unidentified and arbitrary slight. Will his literal-minded interpretation of Mom’s cruel threat save Billy from the threatened punishment — or make it that much worse, when the time comes? We’re left to wonder. In the second panel, Billy looks on passively as Dolly uses his presence as an excuse to cruelly remind Grandma of her washed-up, pre-technological, ice-floe-ready status. All this ambient hate and rage doesn’t register on the surface, of course, but you just know the seeds of deep subconscious trauma have been planted. Both these panels have the feel of someone looking back and saying, “Oh, yeah, so that’s why I am the way I am.”