I don’t get it…
The first three are actual animals. The last is a candy. Not particularly funny, IMO, but there you go.
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That’s the lamest cartoon I’ve ever seen…
I envy somebody who’s never heard of Family Circus.
“Of the comic strips that I read, that is the most lame cartoon.”
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It should probably be noted that today’s comic isn’t typical of Lio. This is more typical of the strip.
I’ve been reading it in my local paper for a few months now and I like it. I have to admit it isn’t usually funny, it’s more “quirky”. I don’t know, it works for me. ![]()
I rather liked the one where he is standing in a ruined school room. You can see through the fallen wall that the entire city has been devastated. A teacher if frowning at him, and he is writing on the remains of a blackboard, “I will not play with fissionable materials in school. I will not play with…”

One of the first ones I laughed out loud at showed him holding a trombone, and dialing a phone. Then he placed the receiver on the table and blew the trombone at it.
Final panel shows a 1950’s version of Lucy van Pelt holding a phone out to a 1950’s version of Charlie Brown, saying, “It’s for you. It’s your teacher.”