Bil Keane (1922- ) is an American cartoonist best known for his work on the long-running strip The Family Circus, which began its run in 1960 and is still going strong. He worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin from 1946-1959, worked on Channel Chuckles from 1954-1977, and started his comic career with Silly Philly.
Keane was born in Philadelphia; as of 2000, he is married with five children, and lives in Arizona.
BilKeane: When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
BilKeane: Well, it's not Yankee Stadium, it's more like the sandlot field of the Crescentville Arrows, a team in Philadelphia that I used to watch in the '30s when I was a kid.
BilKeane: My only reason for using the religious or spiritual themes in the "Family Circus," is to show what our family was like when I was growing up and how religion was a part of the family life of Bil and Thel Keane.
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