The Family Circus At Disneyland (1978) - Part 4

In the Summer of 1978, The Family Circus comic strip followed "the family" as they visited Disneyland, over a period of 27 consecutive days.  I have been posting a "week's worth" of those comics each week, within the month of July.  This is "Part 4," the final part to this series.  To see "Part 1," click HERE.  For "Part 2," click HERE.  And for "Part 3," click HERE.

Sunday, August 13, 1978:

Monday, August 14, 1978:

Tuesday, August 15, 1978:

 Wednesday, August 16, 1978:

Thursday, August 17, 1978:

Friday, August 18, 1978:

Saturday, August 19, 1978:

I don't have the panel for Sunday, August 20th.  I think if there had been a Disneyland-related panel that day, I would have it in my collection.  I'm assuming by then, the family had gone back to "normal activities" at home, and that's why I didn't save that one.  However, the next day (Monday, August 21, 1978), the family was back at home, and there was a reference made about their Disneyland trip:

I hope everyone enjoyed this series of "The Family Circus" comics, from 1978!

The Family Circus At Disneyland (1978) - Part 3

In the Summer of 1978, The Family Circus comic strip followed "the family" as they visited Disneyland, over a period of 27 consecutive days.  I have been posting a "week's worth" of those comics at the end of every week, within the month of July.  This is "Part 3."  Please check back next week for the fourth and final set from this series!  To see "Part 1," you can click HERE.  To see "Part 2," click HERE.

Sunday, August 6, 1978:

Monday, August 7, 1978:

Space Mountain was only one year old, at this point.

Tuesday, August 8, 1978:

The following day, the family was still waiting in line for Space Mountain.  Clever!

Wednesday, August 9, 1978:

Thursday, August 10, 1978:

I'm pretty sure that the short mouse wearing the pillbox hat and the large bow, is supposed to be "Bianca," from The Rescuers.  That film had it's original release just one year earlier, and it's characters were still being used within the park.

Friday, August 11, 1978:

This one is dedicated to Meet The World reader, commenter, and guest blogger, J.G.!  And he knows why!

Saturday, August 12, 1978:

The Family Circus At Disneyland (1978) - Part 2

In the Summer of 1978, The Family Circus comic strip followed "the family" as they visited Disneyland, over a period of 27 consecutive days.  I will be posting a "week's worth" of those comics at the end of every week, within the month of July.  This is "Part 2."  Please check back each week for a new set!  And to see "Part 1," click HERE.

Sunday, July 30, 1978:

Monday, July 31, 1978:

Tuesday, August 1, 1978:

Wednesday, August 2, 1978:

The "New Matterhorn" had just opened, that summer of 1978.

Thursday, August 3, 1978:

Friday, August 4, 1978:

Saturday, August 5, 1978:

For the 2015 republishing of this panel (for Disneyland's 60th anniversary), Jeff Keane had altered his dad's original caption by replacing "The Bee Gees," with "Justin Bieber."

The Family Circus At Disneyland (1978) - Part 1

The Family Circus is a comic strip, created by Bil Keane.  It debuted in newspapers in 1960, and has been in continuous production ever since.  Bil's son, Jeff, began helping him with with the series in 1981 and took over production in 2011, after his father passed away.

In the Summer of 1978, the series followed "the family" (which consists of a mom, a dad, and their four children) as they visited Disneyland, over a period of 27 consecutive days.  I was 13 years old at the time, and my mom subscribed to two different newspapers, but I rarely ever read the comics section.  It was my mom who alerted me to the fact that "The Family Circus" was doing a series at Disneyland.  And she didn't realize it herself, until several days into the series.  Once we realized that "Disneyland" was going to be a continuing theme, I went outside to our trash cans to dig out our old newspapers to see exactly when the series started, and how many I had missed.

I thought I had been able to find all of them back to the very first day, but it turns out that I had missed the very first one.  Fortunately, "Meet The World" reader and commenter, "Kathy!", was able to locate that first panel and was nice enough to share it with us (thank you, Kathy!).

Monday, July 24, 1978:

This panel is the earliest one I found, when going through my family's trash cans!

Tuesday, July 25, 1978:

While searching online, I also found out that this series was republished in the Summer of 2015, apparently for Disneyland's 60th anniversary.  Color was added to all of the panels by Bil Keane's son, along with some other minor changes to a few of them.  This one was republished on July 17, 2015:

For some reason, I was also missing the panel for Wednesday, July 26, 1978, but again....thanks to "Kathy!", here it is:

Thursday, July 27, 1978:

The Mad Hatter shop used to be located in Fantasyland, between Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and Peter Pan's Flight.  I took this photo of the Mad Hatter shop, in early 1982.  You can see how accurate Bil Keane was, at replicating the signage for the shop.

Friday, July 28, 1978:

 Saturday, July 29, 1978:

Please check back each week, throughout the month of July.  I plan to post a "week's worth" of The Family Circus' 1978 visit to Disneyland, every Friday this month!