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Bil (William) Aloysius Keane (1922 - 2011) was active/lived in Arizona, Pennsylvania. Bil Keane is known for Cartoons-"Family Circus", illustration.
Bil Keane (1922-2011)
An American cartoonist best known for his work on the long-running newspaper comic
The Family Circus
, which began its run in 1960 and continues in syndication.
Bil Keane was born William Aloysius Keane in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught himself to draw while attending Northeast Catholic High School by mimicking the style of the cartoons published in
The New Yorker.
His first cartoon was published on May 21, 1936 on the amateur page of the
Philadelphia Daily News
.
Keane served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, drawing for
Yank
magazine and creating the "At Ease with the Japanese" feature for the Pacific edition of
Stars and Stripes
. While stationed in Australia he met Thelma "Thel" Carne. Bil and Thel were married in Brisbane in 1948 and settled in Roslyn, Pennsylvania. Thel, the inspiration for the "Mommy" character in his long-running strip, died on May 23, 2008 from com ...
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