Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>The Family Circus</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1961-09-11
name: label: graphic artist
content: Keane, Bil
label: publisher
content: Register and Tribune Syndicate
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for <i>The Family Circus</i> comic strip shows the family's children thinking that their mother’s tears, a result of cutting onions, are a response to something they've done wrong.
label: Description (Brief)
content: William Aloysius "Bil" Keane (1922-2011) began his comic art career while still a teenager. During his service in the Army, between 1942 and 1945, he drew cartoons for <i>Yank, the Army Weekly</i> and <i>Stars and Stripes.</i> After the war, he worked for <i>The Philadelphia Bulletin</i> where he developed the strip <i>Silly Philly,</i> a Sunday strip based on the life of William Penn. Keane's work could also be seen in the <i>Channel Chuckles</i> television cartoon, which ran from 1954 to 1977. In 1960, after he and his family settled in Paradise Valley, Arizona, Keane debuted <i>The Family Circus.</i> Keane served as the president of the National Cartoonist Society during the 1980s.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>The Family Circus</i> (1960- ) is a single-panel daily and Sunday comic known for its distinctive, circular presentation. The panel was inspired by creator Bil Keane’s own life and experiences as a husband and parent. More recently <i>The Family Circus,</i> now written and drawn by Bil Keane’s son Jeff, has achieved international popularity.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Joseph Gura, Jr. (through Carl Sandberg IV)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0081.299
label: accession number
content: 2010.0081
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0081.299
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 cm x 22.1 cm; 7 15/32 in x 8 11/16 in