Researchers report six-decade study analyzing images of family life in comic strips published on Mother's Day or Father's Day. The perception of fatherhood has shifted with the forces of social and political tides, according to a study of some of America's best-known families. A six-decade analysis of fatherhood and motherhood as played out by popular comic strip characters charts the parodies that challenge and perpetrate national ideologies and gender stereotypes. The chronological study, headed by Georgia State University sociologist Ralph LaRossa and reported by the National Council on Family Relations in the May edition of the national Journal of Marriage and the Family , examined nationally syndicated cartoons published on Mother's Day and Father's Day from to

Since , newspaper readers have found circular logic in The Family Circus , a single-panel strip about the misadventures of married couple Bil and Thelma and their four mischievous children: Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, and P. In , he created Channel Chuckles , a commentary on the new medium of television. While successful, Keane wanted to try his hand at something else. Drawing on his household experiences with five children, he created a slice-of-life strip titled Family Circle in The name was a reference to the circular panel Keane used. The house tips magazine Family Circle objected, thinking it might confuse readers.

Raf Schoenmaekers combined his love for digital art and engineering background to tell some truths using graphs in this funny comics. Digital artist Fransdita Muafidin decided to take funny cat photos one step further, and the results are peculiar and hilarious. Some of these puns are pretty cheesy, but they'll make you feel grate!

Occasionally, parents Bil and Thel will contribute some insightful comment about the children's exploits, like when they all were imitating Wayne's World and Bil says: "Makes sense to me. Other characters include random neighbor children, pets, extended family members many of whom are dead , and various ghosts representing childhood excuses. A standard Family Circus trope is for a parent to ask the children who broke something, only for them all to say: "not me"