Family Guy Why Stewie and Peter Griffin NEVER Worked in Comics

Family Guy: Why Stewie and Peter Griffin NEVER Worked in Comics

Family Guy’s brand of fast-paced slapstick and cutaway gags have made it a blockbuster hit on the small screen, but that doesn’t translate well to comics.

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Family Guy Why Stewie and Peter Griffin NEVER Worked in Comics

Ever since it debuted in 1999, Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy has captivated audiences with its over-the-top and nonsensical brand of sitcom humor. Absurd situations, controversial topics and the show’s signature cutaway gags have cemented Family Guy’s place as one of the most successful and longest-lasting animated sitcoms. Despite the show’s massive audience and wide appeal, Family Guy has never really been able to successfully translate itself to comics, but it’s not for lack of trying.

The Griffin Family’s first foray into original comics came from Devil’s Due Publishing in 2006 in the form of a trio of standalone titles by Max Fleckenstein and Benjamin Phillips. The first book, 100 Ways to Kill Lois by Stewie Griffin, set the tone for the other issues, which follow Peter Griffin and Chris Griffin and are presented in a fourth-wall-breaking fashion by their titular characters.

Family Guy Why Stewie and Peter Griffin NEVER Worked in Comics

The lessons offered by the hosts are intercut with B-plots that all could have been episodes of the show themselves. The issues are quintessential Family Guy, with plotlines that involve trading places with malevolent vagrants, Peter balancing his work and family (and alcoholism) and leading a jailbreak, but the jokes have a hard time sticking a landing almost all the way through. Literal winks and nods to the audience could easily go unnoticed. What would normally be a string of cutaways instead come across as unconnected panels, due to the absence of the breakneck pace the show employs for its often non-sequitur jokes.

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The Devil’s Due comics might not have lasted long or met the same relative acclaim that the television series earned at different points in its run, but they were still further ahead than what had come before it. In 2004, Tokyopop published Family Guy: Peter the Great, a cinemanga that pulled still images and captions from two episodes of the main series to translate them into the comic book format. These episodes, “Death Is a Bitch” and “I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar” were both well-received episodes of the original series, but being directly transcribed to panels once again led to Family Guy’s signature brand of humor falling flat. There has never been a follow-up attempt at another book in the same vein as Peter the Great.

As popular as it is on television, Family Guy has never been able to find its footing in print, unlike its peers. The Simpsons ongoing series ran from 1993 to 2018 at Bongo Comics, earning multiple spinoff series, and almost always garnering a warm reception from readers and critics. In 2014, Bob’s Burgers had mild success in print with a short but well-recieved run at Dynamite Comics.

For all of its success, Family Guy is so deeply entrenched in its own comedic stylings and the television medium that it is impossible for its humor to not get lost in translation. However, there are still an abundance of episodes to watch, even if there aren’t many comics to read.

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