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The Family Circus
Comic strip
For description Telugu coat, see Kinsfolk Circus (2001 film). Present the Sanskrit film, depiction Family Carnival (2018 film).
| The Parentage Circus | |
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An early rhythm featuring (L to R) Daddy (Bil), Dolly, Hegoat, Mommy (Thel), and Jeffy. A onefourth child, P.J., was introduced in 1962. | |
| Author(s) | Bil Keane Jeff Keane |
| Current status/schedule | Running |
| Launch date | February 29, 1960; 64 years ago (February 29, 1960) |
| Alternate name(s) | The Cover Circle Family-Go-Round |
| Syndicate(s) | (Current) Disjointing Features Syndicate (Previous) Register opinion Tribune Crime family (1960–1986) |
| Genre(s) | Humor, silence cartoon, cover values, religious |
| Preceded by | Silly Philly |
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Bil Keane: An Appreciation
My first contact with The Family Circus creator Bil Keane was at the Reuben Awards dinner in San Francisco in 1990. This was when the National Cartoonists Society was still largely dominated by "old guard" cartoonists like Mort Walker and Bil and had the feel of a "Raccoon Lodge" convention out of a 1956 Honeymooners TV sitcom. I distinctly remember some sort of inebriated pissing contest going on in the hotel men's room.
I also remember Bil Keane's talk to the assembled crowd. It was flavored by what his generation would call "pretty salty language." For the creator of such a family-friendly strip, his comments were a surprise--and a pleasant one. I began to realize these "old-timers" were not at all like the characters in their G-rated comics; they were people like me. Well, sort of.
On the comics page of any big city daily newspaper, my Zippy strip tends to look like a fish out of water amid all the middle class families and talking animals, but in the context of a large ballroom full of working cartoonists, I felt a professional kinship.
I was surprised when Bil told me he read Zippy in his local Arizona paper and liked it. He didn't even qualify his opinion with the usual, "Of course, I don't always get it." Until then, I hadn't paid
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Bil Keane
American cartoonist (1922–2011)
For people with a similar name, see William Keane. For the Los Angeles broadcaster, see Bill Keene.
William Aloysius Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011) was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic strip The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Keane was born in Crescentville, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, and attended parochial school at St. William Parish and Northeast Catholic High School.[3][4] While a schoolboy, he taught himself to draw by mimicking the style of the cartoons published in The New Yorker.[5] His first cartoon was published on May 21, 1936, on the amateur page of the Philadelphia Daily News.[6] While in high school, he signed his work "Bill Keane",[7] but omitted the second L from his first name early in his career, in order "to be distinctive".[8]
Career
[edit]Keane served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, during which he drew for Yank and created the feature "At Ease with the Japanese" for the Pacific edition of Stars and Stripes.
From 1946 to 1959 Keane worked as a staff artist for the Philade