In Memory of Bil Keane (1922-2011)

Our condolences and thoughts go out to the family and many millions of friends of Bil Keane, creator of the comically endearing “Family Circus,” the world’s most popular single-panel daily cartoon. Bil died November 8 at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona at the age of 89.

Michael Cavna observed, in The Washington Post, “For Millions of Readers, Bil Keane reached out, day by reliable day, through the pure and distilled and comforting power of a single panel. “Family Circus” may play out within its distinctive circle, but to many fans, the debut of its midcentury family felt like a keyhole, then a fully inviting window into a reassuring world — an approachable, guileless realm of broad grins, wide-eyed observation and the winking malapropism.”