The family pets are two dogs-a Labrador named Barfy and a shaggy-haired mutt named Sam, a stray the children brought home on January 26, 1970-and an orange tabby cat named Kittycat. The family occasionally visits them for vacation. Strips in the past have mentioned them living in Iowa, but one 2007 strip mentioned Florida. Thel's parents are both alive but apparently live several hundred miles away in a rural area. However, on November 25, 2012, reference is made to his having died before Jeffy was born even though the character Al was featured in strips prior to his Granddad's death.
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Bil's father (as a spirit) plays a prominent role in the TV special A Family Circus Christmas. Bil's father (Al, called Granddad by the kids and Bil) is dead but occasionally appears in the strip as a spirit or watching from up in heaven. grows to be about one year old, and rarely speaks.īil's mother (Florence, but usually called Grandma) appears regularly in the strip and apparently lives near the family.
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(Peter John) was introduced into the strip through a series of cartoons about the Family Circus Mommy's pregnancy, which culminated in the baby's birth on August 1, 1962. The character of 3-year-old Jeffy was named and modeled after Keane's youngest child, Jeff. Dolly was a nickname that Thelma Keane called little girls. The character of 5-year-old Dolly was modeled after Keane's daughter and eldest child, Gayle. Keane also modeled Billy after his eldest son Glen, now a prominent Disney animator. The first use of this gag by Keane was in This Week magazine in 1962 in a cartoon titled "Life in Our House" which attributed the childish drawings to his 6-year-old son, Chris. The strips purportedly drawn by Billy are crudely rendered and reflect his understanding of the world and sense of humor.
A recurring theme involves Billy as a substitute cartoonist, generally filling in for a Sunday strip. The Los Angeles Times ran a feature article on the Thelma character when Keane updated her hairstyle in 1996. Some panels refer to Bil as a veteran of World War II. With the exception of P.J., no characters have aged appreciably during the run of the strip.īil (named Steve in the early years of the strip) works in an office, and he is believed to be a cartoonist, most likely based on the writer of the strip because he draws big circles on paper, presumably a cartoon version of the Family Circus. Their four children, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J., are fictionalized composites of the Keanes' five children. The parents, Bil and Thelma (Thel), are modeled after the author and his wife, Thelma Carne Keane. The central characters of Family Circus are a family whose surname is rarely mentioned (although the cartoon of August 26, 2013, in which Billy refers to "Grandma Keane" and "Grandma Carne" indicates the same surnames as the author's family). Compilations of Family Circus comic strips have sold over 13 million copies worldwide. According to publisher King Features Syndicate, it is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world, appearing in 1,500 newspapers. The series debuted on February 29, 1960, and has been in continuous production ever since.
The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border, hence the original name of the series, which was changed following objections from the magazine Family Circle. The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle, also Family-Go-Round) is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Bil Keane and, since Bil's death in 2011, is currently written, inked, and rendered (colored) by his son, Jeff Keane. Humor, gag cartoon, family values, religious (Previous) Register and Tribune Syndicate (1960–1986) A fourth child, P.J., was introduced in 1962. An early strip featuring (L to R) Daddy (Bil), Dolly, Billy, Mommy (Thel), and Jeffy.
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