I had no idea that Bil Keane's son, Glen, who inspired Billy in the strip, went on to become a famed animator, and until health issues intervened, was the director of "Tangled," one of Kelly's favorite movies. He also designed and animated Ariel in "The Little Mermaid," another of her favorites.
Sadly, Keane's mom, Thelma, who inspired the mom in the strip, died of Alzheimer's in 2008. She was an Australian who met her husband when they did war work there during WW II, and was so recognizable as Thel that people would stop her in the supermarket and ask her if she was the mom in the strip.
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Just saw that Bil Keane died. :(
I guess I was weird, for "Mommy" in Family Circus was one of my first crushes (I was 5). I also recall the Dysfunctional Family Circus from the mid-90s, one of the first websites I ever looked at. You could re-caption Family Circus cartoons, and some of them were utterly hilarious (and nasty too). Some of these are available online still if you search hard enough.
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