Bil Keane, creator of the comically endearing “Family Circus,” the world’s most popular single-panel daily cartoon, died Nov. 8 at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He was 89. He had ...

PHOENIX — Thelma Keane, the wife of “Family Circus” cartoonist Bil Keane and the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running comic, has died of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 82.

Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running Family Circus comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82. She died Friday of Alzheimer's disease, the ...

PHOENIX – Thelma Keane, the inspiration for the Mommy character in the long-running “Family Circus” comic created by her husband, Bil Keane, has died. She was 82. She died Friday … ...

Bil Keane, whose Family Circus cartoon about a family with four cute little kids is carried in nearly 1,500 newspapers, has died at age 89. According to the Los Angeles Times’ obit, Keane mined ...

His early Family Circus cartoons showed this sense of humor about “the way child rearing can be its own special prison,” according to Sean O’Neal’s AV Club obituary of Keane–that’s ...

Father, through the unfathomable power of the press, has obtained not one but two copies of “The Family Circus Album – A 25th-Anniversary Celebration” (Fawcett Columbine: $8.95 paperback).