Bil Keane, a Phoenix cartoonist, started drawing Family Circus in 1960. The artist was born in Pennsylvania, served in the Army, met his wife (and inspiration for his “Mommy” character) in Australia, ...

Bil Keane, who created the popular Family Circus newspaper cartoon strip in 1960, has passed away at age 89, reports to the AP. Keane's wholesome, family-oriented strip, which was modeled heavily on ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

I was saddened to read of the loss of Bil Keane, Family Circus creator. I have a laminated copy of one of his cartoons that has been on my refrigerator for more than 20 years — clipped when my own ...

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 ...

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 ...