Bil Keane

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Born on October 5, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bil Keane was an American cartoonist. He is most notable for his work on the long-running newspaper comic The Family Circus, which began its run in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane^.

Bil Keane died on November 8, 2011, at his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona (near Phoenix), at 89. The cause of death was given as congestive heart failure.

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Tom Wilson

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Born on August 1, 1931 in Grant Town, West Virginia.

Tom Wilson was an American cartoonist. Wilson was the creator of the comic strip Ziggy, and drew it from 1971 to 1987. Afterwards, the strip was continued by his son Tom Wilson, Jr. The Ziggy comic panel, syn­di­cated by Uni­ver­sal Uclick (for­merly Uni­ver­sal Press Syn­di­cate), launched in 15 news­pa­pers in June 1971. It now appears in more than 500 daily and Sun­day news­pa­pers, and has been fea­tured in best-selling books, cal­en­dars and greet­ing cards.

Wilson died in his sleep on September 16, 2011 of pneu­mo­nia at a Cincin­nati hos­pi­tal. He was 80.

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Bill Rechin

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Born on August 20, 1930 in Buffalo, New York.

Bill Rechin was an American cartoonist who created the comic strips Out of Bounds and Crock^. He received the National Cartoonists Society’s Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1992 for his work on Out of Bounds. He was president of the NCS for part of 1988.

Rechin died of esophageal cancer on May 21, 2011.

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