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RIP Bil Keane (Family Circus comic)


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Link to Washington Post obituary

 

You know what always creeped me out about the Family Circus? Those ghostly "Ida Know" and "Not Me" characters:

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_14J2dEsfIG0/TPM9ZW1Z9BI/AAAAAAAAEeE/pptaQ7NeNfk/s1600/Family%2BCircus%2B11-28-10.gif

 

They look so mean.

 

Not creepy, but ubiquitous to the Circus, were the "dashed line path" comics:

 

http://blog.rifftrax.com/wp-content/uploads/family-circus-monster.jpg

 

I don't want to completely dump on a "good intentions" comic strip...but the Family Circus is just so easy to make fun of. Anyway, RIP to Bil.

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I was in first grade in 1968, and back then, there weren't a ton of reading materials outside of stuff we would get at school (Dick and Jane, The Weekly Reader, etc.). So a lot of us spent a fair amount of time each day with The Green Sheet in the Milwaukee Journal.

The Family Circus was one of the first things that I read on my own--and it was consistently gentle and wholesome. Good job by Keane in being able to keep it that way all these years.

I remember being especially touched by the panels with the deceased grandfather.

RIP Bil. . .Thanks for all of your work.

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Sorry. Maybe I have a warped sense of humor.

Not at all. That was good.

I'm legitimately sad to see this. I agree Family Circus wasn't all that funny, but I loved the Billy editions. This 'updated' one is good (SFW)

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