Thursday Extra Day.
Bil Keane will always be best known for his saccharine family series The Family Circus. Especially the many Snday he did with the kid who blames a ghost, or the stippled line that show how one of the other kids took the long route from a to b. My personal favorite has always been his Channel Chuckles gag panel (daily and Sunday) that ran from long before The Circus was born until deep into it's run. But when exactly did it start? Today I went back and had a look. It seems Channel Chuckles was an immediate hit, probably due to the fact that it's onr column format was especiall made for use on the otherwise dull tv listing page. I narrowed my search to California papers and found six who started it from the beginning, february 15, 1954. The first three weeks are numbered, altough not every paper used them in the same order.
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