| The Bungle Family | |
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| Author(s) | Harry J. Tuthill |
| Current status/schedule | Daily and Sunday; concluded |
| Launch date | 1918 |
| End date | June 2, 1945 |
| Alternate name(s) | Home, Sweet Home |
| Syndicate(s) | McClure Newspaper Syndicate (1919–1924) McNaught Syndicate (1924–1942) Self-syndicated (1943–1945) |
| Publisher(s) | Eastern Color Printing |
| Genre(s) | Humor; gag-a-day |
The Bungle Family is an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by Harry J. Tuthill, that first appeared in 1918. Originally titled Home, Sweet Home, it first appeared as part of a series of rotating strips in the New York Evening Mail. The strip ran until June 2, 1945.
In 1999, The Bungle Family was voted one of the Top 100 English language comics of the 20th Century by The Comics Journal.[1] Art Spiegelman praised The Bungle Family as "Visually deadpan, genuinely hilarious once you tune into its frequency, with a great ear for dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of character". Spiegelman also described the strip as "one of the darkest visions of American life this side of Nathanael West."[2]
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