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http://news.yahoo.com/family-circus-creator-bil-keane-dies-89-175700917.html

Wasn't my favorite comic in the newspaper, but still sad.

[Edit: Wasn't sure if this should go in General or Media Madness - so I posted in General, can be moved if more appropriate.]

Damn, Tom's been busy this month.

I don't think this will diminish the quality of his work in any measurable way.

I was going to post, in before the sniping starts...

Stay Classy.

We need an "in before the" quota and it should be labeled as met.

Somebody do a comic showing the crazy route the pallbearers take to get to the grave.

fade said:

Somebody do a comic showing the crazy route the pallbearers take to get to the grave.

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There's got to be a bunch of kids around the funeral and gravesite saying horribly inappropriate but adorable things.

They're burying daddy because he's the most special treasure of all.

"We love to recycle!"

"Moooooom! Dad's not playing hide and seek fair!"


One kid whispers to the other at the gravesite, "I put a puppy in there so dad won't be lonely."

(Sorry for the bad photoshopping)

I'm sure if this were any other creator, all of this would be inappropriate.

Except maybe Jim Davis.

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Quotemander Prime said:

I'm sure if this were any other creator, all of this would be inappropriate.
Except maybe Jim Davis.

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We're gonna have fun with Gary Larson, let me tell you.

It was so wrong for me to like that. I know that. I just can't help it.

Krisken said:

It was so wrong for me to like that. I know that. I just can't help it.

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Ha! You feel bad about liking it? I feel bad I made it - I just hope it doesn't make its way to any of his close family. If someone close to me had died and I saw similar material - even in homage to the deceased's life work - I don't think I'd take it so well, at least not for awhile. This is disturbing, too, which is one thing that family circus never was, so it's not a good homage anyway.

So, yeah, pre-apologies to anyone that this offends...

Hey, I didn't know it was a comic. I thought it was just somewhere safe on the paper to put my drink. Isn't that why it was a circle?

I would only feel bad if the family saw it. Otherwise, jokes about death are about as old as jokes.

Wonder who's going to take that spot in the papers now? Seems like the only way for new comics to get in these days is for somebody to die.

You act like someone isn't still making Family Circus. I bet he hasn't written one in years.

Krisken said:

You act like someone isn't still making Family Circus. I bet he hasn't written one in years.

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Charles Shultz was doing Peanuts up until the day of his death. It's entirely possible Bil Keane was doing the same.

AshburnerX said:

Charles Shultz was doing Peanuts up until the day of his death. It's entirely possible Bil Keane was doing the same.

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I hope so. Otherwise there is no excuse for it being 40 years stale.

Honestly, most of those on-going cartoons are only in papers because they appeal to people who still READ papers... basically elderly people who have had these comics in their lives since they were young and really young kids who don't have access to the net/can't watch TV in the early morning. The only other reason I can think of would be iron-clad contracts.

I kinda feel bad for the medium, but this is a long time coming.

Bil's son has been drawing it for the last several years: "Jeff Keane has been drawing "Family Circus" in the last few years as his father enjoyed retirement."

http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Cultur...-remembered-as-creator-of-Family-Circus-comic

fade said:

Somebody do a comic showing the crazy route the pallbearers take to get to the grave.

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Hey, I wanted to make that joke! :-P