Family Circus -- dead

PopTodd · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:07 pm

Bil Keane, creator of mildly amusing comic strip Family Circus, dead at 89.
How'd he die?
Ida Know.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:10 pm

FT · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 7:47 pm

something irks me about the fact that he spelled his name with one "l"

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

only comic less funny than this is Marmaduke.

toots · **Posted:** Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:12 pm

i thought this was gonna be some 6 o'clock news weintraub tragedy

bort · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 12:13 am

I thought it was going to be about Michael Gross.

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:09 am

"There's the Family Circus, in the lower right-hand corner, just waiting to suck."

PopTodd · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:27 am

toots Wrote:

i thought this was gonna be some 6 o'clock news weintraub tragedy

Yeah, checking the title again it didn't look good.
Changed it because it was just too troubling.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:05 am

And, checking on the story, I was reminded of this brilliant site:
"Nietzsche Family Circus

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Thu Nov 10, 2011 1:20 pm

FT Wrote:

something irks me about the fact that he spelled his name with one "l"

He did it just to be different.