Bil Keane, who created the comic, has passed away.
http://news.yahoo.com/family-circus-...175700917.html
I'm teary-eyed. I loved that comic strip from childhood on. Loved all the kids and the cute things they'd say and do. The parents looked like people I knew. Their house and neighborhood looked a lot like places I'd lived in - it was IMO as a kid, the way life just was. Loved the strips showing the deceased grandfather still loving and staying near the grandmother.