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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.

Bil Keane

I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.
BIL KEANE

Family Feeling Love Mom Myself
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

Art Homework Taught
I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.
BIL KEANE

Drawing Names Wall
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

Needs Simple Tired
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Mother Parenting
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
BIL KEANE

Comic Entertainment Lasts
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 Laughter Love Myself
When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
BIL KEANE

Drawing School Teacher
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
BIL KEANE

Earth Happy Santa Times
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
Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
BIL KEANE

Faces Forget Pace
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peaceful Sacred
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
BIL KEANE

History Powerful Today Yesterday
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
BIL KEANE

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

Funny Just Trying
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Began Go Goal

OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.

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