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		<title>Fox Envisions Comic Strip THE FAMILY CIRCUS as a Live-Action Franchise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan Bettinger</dc:creator>
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20th Century Fox and Walden Media have teamed to buy the rights to the single panel comic The Family Circus with the intent to make a live-action feature film.  Fox has hired Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir --- two of the six writers behind Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (!) --- to pen the adaptation.  According to Deadline, the rights were a hot item amongst the studios, each dreaming of a "multiple quadrant family franchise."
I am not the target audience for the strip, which is fine.  But creator Bil Keane's work is impressive by sheer force of longevity.  First publised in 1960, The Family Circus enters its sixth decade as the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world.  A conservative estimate tallies over 15,000 cute things that kids have said.  Hit the jump for a bit more info on the comic, plus a few choice selections from the funny pages.



Courtesy of Wikipedia:

The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle) is a syndicated comic strip created and written by cartoonist Bil Keane and inked/colored by his son, Jeff Keane.  The strip generally uses a single captioned panel with a round border,  hence the original name of the series, which was changed following  objections from Family Circle, the magazine of the same name. The series debuted on February 29 - Leap Year Day - in 1960, and has been in continuous production ever since. According to publisher King Features Syndicate, it is the most widely syndicated cartoon ...]]></description>
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