Bil Keane, creator of the comically endearing “Family Circus,” the world’s most popular single-panel daily cartoon, died Nov. 8 at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 89. He had ...

Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running Family Circus comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82. She died Friday of Alzheimer's disease, the ...

“The Family Circus” has been Jeff Keane’s strip for more than a decade now. Although that’s not how he sees it. “Oh, I always think of it as his cartoon,” he said of his father.

Keane's comic, "The Family Circus," has been running for 51 years. Few Americans however, knew the funny bone hidden inside the man best known for promoting family values. Creative Commons Bil ...