The Family Circus was created by Bill Keane in 1960 as a single-panel newspaper comic strip about the wholesome everyday lives of a suburban family. The cast consists of Bil the father, Thel the ...

Keane, who started drawing the one-panel cartoon featuring Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. and their parents in February 1960, died Tuesday at age 89 at his longtime home in Paradise Valley, near Phoenix.

Erin Bradley's Park Slope Family Circus blog appropriates one of a longest running American comic strips, Family Circus, and injects it with wit and social commentary. It's as if artist Norman ...

PHOENIX — Thelma Keane, the wife of "Family Circus" cartoonist Bil Keane and the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running comic, has died of Alzheimer's disease. She was 82. "Family ...

PHOENIX - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half-century. The appeal endured, the author ...