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William Aloysius Keane (October 5, 1922 – November 8, 2011) was an American cartoonist best known for the newspaper comic panel The Family Circus. He began it in 1960 and his son Jeff Keane continues to produce it. [1][2] Early life and education.
The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle, also Family-Go-Round) is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Bil Keane and, since Keane's death in 2011, written, inked and rendered (colored) by his son Jeff Keane.
Nov 10, 2011 · Bil Keane, a cartoonist who chronicled the lighter moments of family life for more than 50 years through the gentle, heartfelt humor of the “Family Circus” comic strip, has died. He was 89.
The world’s most popular comic panel, The Family Circus is a sentimental portrait of family life featuring the true-to-life, gentle humor of Daddy, Mommy, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy and PJ. Bil Keane never formally studied art, but by faithfully re-creating the world around him, he developed the phenomenally successful cartoon panel The Family Circus.
Nov 10, 2011 · Bil Keane, Creator of ‘The Family Circus,’ Dies at 89. In the single-panel cartoon that Bil Keane drew for publication on Sept. 10, 1964, the mother is looking at the shopping list posted on...
Self-taught comic artist Bil Keane is the creator of the long-running newspaper strip 'The Family Circus'. William Aloysius Keane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and started his career in the late 1930s, putting out a satirical magazine with a couple of friends: The Saturday Evening Toast.
Nov 10, 2011 · After his death this week, tributes to Bil Keane, the creator of “Family Circus” cartoons, have been spread across the Internet as fellow cartoonists and fans remembered Keane’s life and ...
WASHINGTON – Bil Keane, the Catholic cartoonist who originated the comic strip “The Family Circus” more than 50 years ago, died Nov. 8 at age 89 in Paradise Valley, Ariz., near Phoenix. The cause of death was given as congestive heart failure.
Nov 9, 2011 · 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...
Nov 9, 2011 · Bil Keane, whose "Family Circus" comics have been appearing in newspapers since 1960, died Tuesday in Arizona at the age of 89. His son Jeff, who has been drawing the comic...
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