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Thelma "Thel" Keane (née Carne; March 15, 1926 – May 23, 2008) was the Australian-born American wife of The Family Circus newspaper cartoonist, Bil Keane.Keane served as her husband's inspiration and model for the "Mommy" character in his long-running comic strip [1] and was instrumental in restoring the copyrights for The Family Circus to her husband.
Bil Keane died on November 8, 2011, at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona, near Phoenix, at age 89. The cause of death was given as congestive heart failure . A Catholic , he was buried beside his wife in the Holy Redeemer Cemetery of Phoenix, Arizona.
The parents, Bil and Thelma (Thel), are modeled after the author and his wife, Thelma Carne Keane. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Their four children, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy, and P.J., are fictionalized composites of the Keanes' five children.
Walter Stanley Keane (October 7, 1915 – December 27, 2000) was an American plagiarist who became famous in the 1960s [1] as the claimed painter of a series of widely reproduced paintings depicting vulnerable subjects with enormous eyes. [2] The paintings are now accepted as having been painted by his wife, Margaret Keane.
Jeff Keane is an American cartoonist. He is the youngest son of the late cartoonist Bil Keane who, following his father's death in 2011, became inker and colorist of the syndicated comic strip The Family Circus , after having assisted on it since 1981.
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda watch the finals at the 2008 Olympics, which was being held in the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China on Aug. 10, 2008. They were cheering on the American team.
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Channel Chuckles is a television-themed comic panel created by Bil Keane which appeared in newspapers from 1954 through 1976. [2] Keane received the National Cartoonists Society's 1976 Special Features Award for his work on the strip.