‘Family Circus’ creator Bil Keane dies at 89

PHOENIX — Bil Keane’s “Fam­ily Cir­cus” comics enter­tained read­ers with a sim­ple but sub­lime mix of humor and tra­di­tional fam­ily val­ues for more than a half cen­tury. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the Amer­i­can pub­lic needed the consistency.