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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.

Bil Keane

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

Faces Forget Pace
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
BIL KEANE

Earth Happy Santa Times
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Daddy Divorce Father
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
BIL KEANE

Children Feelings Love
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
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
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Began Go Goal
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
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
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Heart Image Loving Lump Throat Waiting
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peace Place 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
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

Father Kids Mother

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