Keane proudly — and in later interviews, defiantly — trafficked in the wholesome, and his fellow cartoonists respected him for it. At first glance, the sensibilities of Bil Keane and Lynda Barry, for ...

The Family Circus was created by Bill Keane in 1960 as a single-panel newspaper comic strip about the wholesome everyday lives of a suburban family. The cast consists of Bil the father, Thel the ...