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.

We got Big Nate, Bazooka Joe, The Family Circus, Channel Chuckles, FurBabies, The Ducktown Weekly. The Comics Paper, B.C., ...

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 ...

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 ...