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

Bil Keane

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
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 Peace Place Sacred
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
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Divorce Family Himself Mom
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Daddy Divorce Father
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
BIL KEANE

Future Gift Past Present Time
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Character Occasional Thinking
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Family Mom Myself Raise
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
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Myself One Liner Try
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
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
BIL KEANE

Cartoon Character Thinking
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

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

Comic Entertainment Lasts

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