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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

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

Comic Entertainment Lasts
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANE

Family Inspirational Life Myself Reality Start
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 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
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Daddy Divorce Father
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Heart Image Loving Lump Throat Waiting
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Family Mom Myself Raise
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

Looks Magazines Television
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Character Thinking
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
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
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
BIL KEANE

Friends Friendship Love Real
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Mother Parenting
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
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

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.

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