The Family Circus, originally titled The Family Circle, is a syndicated comic strip created by Bil Keane and currently written and drawn by his son Jeff. The single panel strip debuted in 1960 and is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world. To promote the DVD release of Elmo’s Learning Adventures Triple Feature, Sesame Street's Twitter account tweeted an homage to the strip on March 7, 2012.
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| - The Family Circus, originally titled The Family Circle, is a syndicated comic strip created by Bil Keane and currently written and drawn by his son Jeff. The single panel strip debuted in 1960 and is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world. To promote the DVD release of Elmo’s Learning Adventures Triple Feature, Sesame Street's Twitter account tweeted an homage to the strip on March 7, 2012.
- In "Dog Gone", Brian chastises Bill, the Family Circus father for giving him plain advice and suggests for him to have sex with his wife, which he obliges. Later Peter is reading the paper and finds the edition of the comic very shocking. While trying to track down Stewie after he runs away in "Hot Shots", Brian and Lois observe a trail, but finds that it leads to oldest son Billy, who has died of measles.
- 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). The parents, Bil and Thelma (Thel), are modeled after the author and his wife, Thelma Carne Keane. Their four children, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J., are fictionalized composites of the Keanes' five children. With the exception of P.J., the characters have not aged appreciably during the run of the strip.
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| - An early strip featuring Daddy , Dolly, Billy, Mommy , and Jeffy. A fourth child, P.J., was introduced in 1962.
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| - The Family Circus, originally titled The Family Circle, is a syndicated comic strip created by Bil Keane and currently written and drawn by his son Jeff. The single panel strip debuted in 1960 and is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world. To promote the DVD release of Elmo’s Learning Adventures Triple Feature, Sesame Street's Twitter account tweeted an homage to the strip on March 7, 2012.
- In "Dog Gone", Brian chastises Bill, the Family Circus father for giving him plain advice and suggests for him to have sex with his wife, which he obliges. Later Peter is reading the paper and finds the edition of the comic very shocking. While trying to track down Stewie after he runs away in "Hot Shots", Brian and Lois observe a trail, but finds that it leads to oldest son Billy, who has died of measles.
- 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). The parents, Bil and Thelma (Thel), are modeled after the author and his wife, Thelma Carne Keane. Their four children, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J., are fictionalized composites of the Keanes' five children. With the exception of P.J., the characters have not aged appreciably during the run of the strip. Bil (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. Some early panels referred to Bil as a veteran of World War II. Thel is a college-educated homemaker. The Los Angeles Times ran a feature article on the Thelma character when Keane updated her hairstyle in 1996. The oldest child is seven-year-old Billy. A recurring theme involves Billy as a substitute cartoonist, generally filling in for a Sunday strip. The strips purportedly drawn by Billy are crudely rendered and reflect his understanding of the world and sense of humor. 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 six-year-old son, Chris. Keane also modeled Billy after his oldest son Glen, now a prominent Disney animator. Dolly is modeled after Keane's daughter and oldest child, Gayle. Dolly was Gayle's pet name as a child. Three-year-old Jeffy is named for Keane's son (and now artist for the cartoon) Jeff Keane. Youngest child P.J. (Peter John) was introduced to the strip on August 1, 1962, and is the only character to have aged appreciably over the course of the strip. P.J. was introduced as an infant and gradually grew to be about eighteen months old. P.J. rarely speaks.
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