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Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Bil Keane

I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Just Trying
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
BIL KEANE

Eye Heart Laughing
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Life Love Sick Start
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peaceful Sacred
On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
BIL KEANE

Acceptance Family Magazine Movie Page Yourself
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
BIL KEANE

Invention Love Silence Talk Yourself
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
BIL KEANE

Heart Laughter Myself Tears
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
BIL KEANE

Inspirational Life Motivational Present Tomorrow
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Inspiration Real
Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I’m getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you’re gonna let me in I’m getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.
BIL KEANE

Beginning Myself Need Old Simplicity
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Myself One Liner Try
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
BIL KEANE

Draw Home Imitation Myself Study
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Family Mom Myself Raise
Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
BIL KEANE

Easy Face Forget Funny Herself Pace Speed Time
I don’t have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That’s more important to me than a laugh.
BIL KEANE

Drawing Important Laughing Throat
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Character Thinking

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

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