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thenearsightedmonkey:

I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn’t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read.

There was something about looking through a circle at a life that looked pretty good to me. For kids like me there was a map and a compass that was hidden Family Circus. The parents in that comic strip really loved their children. It put that in my head and it stayed with me.

I’d always heard that great art will cause people to burst into tears but the only time it ever happened to me was when I was introduced to Bil Keane’s son, Jeff.  As soon as I realized who he was I just started bawling my face off because I realized when I shook his hand I had climbed through the circle.

And the way I did it was by making pictures and writing stories.

To me the Family Circus is my family. They are my soul family in the image world.

That’s why if you say a word against Family Circus to me I will slug you so hard.

…point proved.