query: instance_of channel chuckles
supports: Jeff Keane is the youngest son of Bil Keane, and currently inks and colors the syndicated comic strip "The Family Circus". A cartoonist (also comic strip creator) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is often created for entertainment, political commentary, or advertising. Cartoonists may work in many formats, such as animation, booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, gag cartoons, graphic design, illustrations, storyboards, posters, shirts, books, advertisements, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, and video game packaging. Channel Chuckles was a television - themed comic panel created by Bil Keane which appeared in newspapers from 1954 through 1976 . Keane received the National Cartoonists Society 's 1976 Special Features Award for his work on the strip . In its daily form , Channel Chuckles was a single - panel gag on the general theme of television , or specifically relating to a popular television series or TV commercial . The Sunday version of Channel Chuckles consisted of several unrelated spot gags in color . Most of the Channel Chuckles gags were simple wordplay references to the titles of contemporary television programs . For example , one gag showed a small TV set on top of a larger TV set , each of them displaying on its screen the title of a current TV sitcom . While the upper TV set showed Love on a Rooftop , the one underneath blared Hey , Landlord ! . One Channel Chuckles gag was a caricature of Mr. Spock from Star Trek receiving letters requesting advice on child - rearing ( a reference to Doctor Benjamin Spock ) . Another Channel Chuckles gag depicted a mad scientist working in his laboratory while a nearby television intoned the slogan of a current DuPont ad campaign : `` Better Living Through Chemistry '' . Another familiar slogan was lampooned in a panel showing a little boy watching a General Electric commercial while his father said , `` And progress is our most important product . Do your homework ! '' Keane would sometimes subdivide the narrow space allotted to his Channel Chuckles feature in order to squeeze in two panels . One two - panel gag was based on the titles of two current TV series . In the first panel , a man asks his wife `` Why ca n't you be more like that show ? '' while pointing to a TV set as it displays the title Occasional Wife . In the second panel , the wife points to the same TV while asking her husband `` And why ca n't you be more like that show ? '' . Her TV screen showed the title The Man Who Never Was . Some gags featured `` Aunt Tenna '' , a matronly woman with her hair done in the form of a TV antenna , who spent all her time watching television or engaged in TV - related activities . The other recurring character in Channel Chuckles was `` Dim Viewer '' , a grumpy old man who always had something negative to say about television programming , commercials or reception . William Aloysius Keane (October 5, 1922  November 8, 2011), better known as Bil Keane, was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the long-running newspaper comic "The Family Circus". It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane. The Family Circus (originally The Family Circle, also Family-Go-Round) is a syndicated comic strip created by cartoonist Bil Keane and currently written, inked, and 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 the magazine "Family Circle". The series debuted on February 29, 1960, and has been in continuous production ever since. According to publisher King Features Syndicate, it is the most widely syndicated cartoon panel in the world, appearing in 1,500 newspapers. Compilations of "Family Circus" comic strips have sold over 13 million copies worldwide. The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They enjoyed each other's company and decided to meet on a regular basis.
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answer: comic strip