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Parents, children, siblings and the home they share, with family as the heart of the story.

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  1. Spy × Family
    Ongoing · 2019

    1. Spy × Family

    by Tatsuya Endo

    • Action
    • Comedy
    • Slice of Life

    The master spy Twilight has one mission: get close to a dangerous politician through his son's elite school. For that he needs a family, fast. He adopts Anya, who can secretly read minds, and marries Yor, who is secretly an assassin. None of them knows the others' secrets — except Anya, who knows everybody's. A warm, very funny family comedy with spy thriller trimmings.

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  2. Sakamoto Days
    Ongoing · 2020

    2. Sakamoto Days

    by Yuto Suzuki

    • Action
    • Comedy
    • Crime

    Taro Sakamoto was the greatest hitman alive — until he fell in love, retired, married and settled down to run a neighbourhood shop, a little heavier than he used to be. When a bounty lands on his head, every killer in town comes calling, and Sakamoto has to fight them off without breaking his promise to his wife: no killing. Inventive action comedy.

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  3. Mission: Yozakura Family
    Completed · 2019

    3. Mission: Yozakura Family

    by Hitsuji Gondaira

    • Action
    • Comedy
    • Romance

    Shy Taiyo Asano's only friend is Mutsumi Yozakura, the youngest daughter of a family of spies — and her overprotective brother, who wants him dead. The way to stay alive is to marry her. Taiyo moves in with the Yozakuras and trains to become a spy himself: family comedy, action and a sweet romance.

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  4. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins
    Completed · 2022

    4. The Ichinose Family's Deadly Sins

    by Taizan 5

    • Drama
    • Mystery
    • Psychological

    Tsubasa Ichinose wakes up after a car accident with no memories, and so does the rest of his family. They decide to start over as a perfect, happy family. But the memories they lost were hiding things. From the creator of Takopi's Original Sin.

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  5. Bringing Up Father
    Completed · 1913

    5. Bringing Up Father

    by George McManus

    • Comedy
    • Slice of Life

    Jiggs came into money and would rather be eating corned beef with his old friends; Maggie intends them to be respectable and throws crockery about it. Drawn in a clean deco line that still looks modern beside the strips printed around it.

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  6. Gasoline Alley
    Completed · 1918

    6. Gasoline Alley

    by Frank King

    • Slice of Life

    A baby was left on a bachelor's doorstep in 1921 and then did something no comic character had done before: he grew up, at the speed everybody else does. The strip has aged in real time ever since.

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  7. La Famille Fenouillard
    Completed · 1889

    7. La Famille Fenouillard

    by Christophe

    • Adventure
    • Comedy

    A provincial shopkeeper takes his wife and daughters on a day out and they end up circling the globe, still complaining about the food. The first long-running French comic family, drawn by a botanist under a pen name.

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  8. The Gumps
    Completed · 1917

    8. The Gumps

    by Sidney Smith

    • Drama
    • Slice of Life

    An ordinary family with money troubles, told as a continuing story rather than a daily joke — the strip that first made readers buy tomorrow's paper to find out what happened. Everything serialised owes it something.

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  9. Foxy Grandpa
    Completed · 1900

    9. Foxy Grandpa

    by Charles E. Schultze

    • Comedy

    Two boys plan a prank on the old man; the old man saw it coming and turns it round on them. The joke never varies, which was the point — readers came back to watch the grandfather win again.

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  10. Winnie Winkle
    Completed · 1920

    10. Winnie Winkle

    by Martin Branner

    • Slice of Life

    A young woman goes out to work and keeps her family fed on the wages. It arrived the year American women got the vote, and it was the first strip to treat a working woman as the ordinary centre of a story.

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