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Comparing Benjamin Frisch's The Fun Family, Before And After

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Fun Family cover (300dpi)

The Fun Family is cartoonist Benjamin Frisch's debut graphic novel, just out this week.

These opening pages have an intriguing history. Ben drew the book front to back and, as he drew, the characters evolved so when he got to the end, he re-drew the first four pages for publication. I think it's really interesting to see the original pages, and to see the characters' evolution from their first inception to their final form.

Let's compare them, the original against the final versions, alternating going down…

Fun Family Letters 001-004-01 FF_5Fun Family Letters 001-004-02
FF_6Fun Family Letters 001-004-03 FF_7Fun Family Letters 001-004-04 FF_8

 

The Fun Family is a subversive look at the underbelly of the All-American family through the prism of Family Circus-esque Sunday morning comic strips. Frisch presents a surreal deconstruction of modern parenting, childhood nostalgia, and good old American narcissism. The book is on sale in booksytores now from Top Shelf Comix/IDW.

The Fun Family is a 240-page full-color softcover graphic novel with French flaps (6.5" x 9.25"), and retails for $19.99.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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