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.

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 ...

Anyone who loves the funny pages will know the work of Bill Keane, who is best remembered for the long running syndicated comic strip Family Circus. If the cartoon series seemed to celebrate a ...

Wink-wink, nudge-nudge… An in-joke in today’s Family Circus. The strip’s creator, Bil Keane, is Glen Keane’s father. Jeffy (aka Jeff … ...

Family Circus: Lame, hokey cartoon from the Sunday paper. Friedrich Nietzsche: Often profound yet often tiresome German philosopher. A randomly selected Family Circus cartoon captioned by a randomly ...

"The Family Circus" creator Bil Keane, whose kid-friendly comic strip gave readers a funny version of his own life at home and became one of the most widely syndicated cartoon panels in the world, has ...

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. His comic strip is featured in nearly 1,500 newspapers ...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Bil Keane, the cartoonist whose "Family Circus" mixed humor with traditional family values, entertaining readers for nearly a half-century, died Tuesday. He was 89. Claudia Smith, a ...

PHOENIX -- For more than a half century, Bil Keane’s clever “Family Circus” comics entertained readers with a mix of humor and traditional family values, intentionally simplistic because the author ...

PHOENIX (AP) — For more than a half century, Bil Keane's clever "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a mix of humor and traditional family values, intentionally simplistic because the ...

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 thought, ...