Posted on 11/09/2011 10:23:04 AM PST by moviefan8
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 author thought the American public needed that consistency.
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I love reading his cartoons.
He will be missed.
Dittos!
Not "edgy". Not "political". Just a pleasant reminder of simpler things.
RIP.
Amen moviefan8.
May he Rest in Peace.
Hopefully his son will carry on after him.
One of the last reminders of the kind of people we once wanted to be. RIP Mr. Keane, and condolences to Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, and P.J.
The “Family Circus” was always a clean staple of good, wholesome material for all ages.
Very sad to hear of Mr. Keane`s passing..RIP.
I tried searching, but couldn’t find it. I wish the search function would work right.
I remember one Family Circus from the early ‘70s. It showed the youngest one walking down their front sidewalk, completely naked, with his eyes shut tight. One of the daughters leans over and whispers to her friend, “he thinks he’s invisible ‘cause his eyes are closed.”
The Comics page is not the same as when I was a kid!
There are some very odd parodies of his work out there, of varying degrees of tastelessness, with some being very odd indeed. For example, one just replaces the captions of his comics with random phrases taken from Friedrich Nietzsche or H.P. Lovecraft.
He also got a lot of mainstream parody, such as in the Pearls Before Swine comic. Keane himself didn’t mind too much, and in some cases got quite a laugh out of it, but his syndicate didn’t like it one bit.
Wow that is a paradox. It is both funny and not funny at the same time.
The other posting source was from twitter and yours was AP so I’d say technically that isn’t a duplicate. I saw that he died on Yahoo so I came here and searched “circus” in the title to see what links were posted here.
He was just featured in this month’s issue of Arizona Highways, and looked very healthy...
I always liked it when one (or all) of the kids coming home and showed the dashed line with all of the meanderings. Would remind me of what I would find interesting and get distracted by (jumping in mud puddles, calling to the ducks, trying to catch a frog, etc.). I really would go over those and mull things over. “I came right home from school!”
I hope to see a creative use of the dashed line on Keane’s trip to Heaven. “Sorry it took so long God, but lots of fun distractions along the way”.
No details just the announcement.
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