If you liked La Famille Fenouillard
7 comics like La Famille Fenouillard
Picked for the same feel: the genres they share with La Famille Fenouillard (adventure, comedy), the same creators, and what readers keep together. Each opens where it is read legally.
Comics like La Famille Fenouillard
Family Life · Comedy1. Foxy Grandpa
by Charles E. Schultze
- Comedy (shared)
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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Family Life · Comedy2. Bringing Up Father
by George McManus
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Family Life · Comedy3. Spy × Family
by Tatsuya Endo
- Action
- Comedy (shared)
- 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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Family Life4. 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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Adventure · Comedy5. Rodolphe Töpffer: Picture Stories
by Rodolphe Töpffer
- Adventure (shared)
- Comedy (shared)
A Geneva schoolmaster drew absurd little travel stories for his pupils in the 1830s, in panels, with the text underneath carrying the timing. Goethe read them and approved. They are usually called the first comics.
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Comedy6. Caran d'Ache: Collected Drawings
by Caran d'Ache
- Comedy (shared)
Wordless picture stories from Paris in the 1880s, told in strict panel sequence so the joke lands without a caption. He took his name from the Russian word for pencil, and he is the reason the story without words became a form.
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Family Life7. 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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