Bloom County round about 1987 or so released a collection that included a fake copy of the Bloom Picayune newspaper. In the comics section there was a Family Circus cartoon that showed little Billy holding a turtle and saying “Beanie’s so old and smelly he reminds me of Grandma”.
It goes way back to the early web. Might have even been on Usenet before that. It’s super old and multiple people have contributed (I remember they did a couple of mine on their site), so you’ll never get it all.
Yeah I found plenty of archives talking about it and pointing to the same dead archive. Unfortunately. A lot of individual comics. More than anything else. A lot of copy cats doing their own thing with it… ah well
around about 1980 i couldn't walk past a book store without scouring it for anything written by those guys, and of course the latest issue of the magazine itself.. but i also had a bunch of books that were collections of Don Adams, Dick DeBartolo, and Al Jaffee's stuff, i couldn't get enough..
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