P.J.

P.J. is the youngest child in the Keane family, the cheerful toddler of the long-running newspaper comic strip Family Circus by Bil Keane, sharing everyday suburban family life with siblings Billy, Dolly, and Jeffy.

Few characters carry the cozy warmth of the funny pages quite like P.J., who made their debut in The Calgary Herald Comic Book #13 in 1978, right in the heart of the Bronze Age. Spanning a remarkable 34 years of publication, P.J. shares their world with a familiar, wholesome cast — Jeffy, Dolly, Billy, and others — across titles like Family Circus and The Calgary Herald Comic Book. It's a testament to enduring charm that a character rooted in the newspaper strip tradition found a home across such a range of publications, from The American Legion to Love. For collectors with a soft spot for the gentler, slice-of-life side of comics history, P.J. is a delightful piece of that long-running tradition.