Since 1960, newspaper readers have found circular logic in The Family Circus, a single-panel strip about the misadventures of married couple Bil and Thelma and their four mischievous children ...

The encomiums for Family Circus creator Bil Keane continue to pour in. The best of them, like this one from the AV Club's Sean O'Neal, find a respectful way to acknowledge the strip's evolution ...

It features a family with four little kids — Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. — their parents, their pets (dogs Barfy and Sam and the cat, Kittycat). It is, as the AP says, a family much like Keane's.

PHOENIX-- 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 ...

There's also the Nietzsche Family Circus, which turns the series' four children — Billy, Dolly, Jeffy and P.J., all composites of Keane's kids — into quasi-existentialist sorrowful geniuses.

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 ...

‘Family Circus’ creator dies at 89. ... 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.

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 ...