heartfelt humor of the “Family Circus” comic strip, has died. He was 89. Keane died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his longtime home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., according to King ...

Since 1960, newspaper readers have found circular logic in The Family Circus, a single-panel strip about the misadventures ... the “Norman Rockwell of the comics page,” artist Bil Keane ...

Bil Keane, whose "Family Circus" comics have been appearing in newspapers ... "I never thought about a philosophy for the strip; it developed gradually," Keane told the East Valley Tribune in ...

For kids like me there was a map and a compass hidden in Family Circus. The parents in that comic strip really loved their children. Their home was stable. It put that image in my head and I kept it.

“It doesn’t have to snow for Santa to get here,” PJ’s older sister Dolly reassures him in a Family Circus ... long-running strip has had success with this formula. The comic, which was ...

I’ve always assumed Family Circus wasn’t a comic strip, it was a puzzle, which is why they put it down at the bottom with the crossword and sodoku. If you can read more than two of them ...

I don't know who reads The Family Circus ... comic (now drawn by his son Jeff Keane), it's basically "Kids Say the Darndest Things". Fox and Walden Media have been trying to turn the strip ...

His comic strip is featured in nearly ... once said the most important thing about “Family Circus” is that it is funny. Keane said the strip hit its stride with a cartoon he did in the mid ...

Bil Keane, creator of the Family Circus comic strip, has died at the age of 89. A spokeswoman for King Features Syndicate, the comic strip's distributor, confirmed he died yesterday but would not ...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers ... near Phoenix. His comic strip is featured in nearly 1,500 newspapers across the country. Jeff Keane, Keane's son who ...