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 KEANEMany 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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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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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.
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Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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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.
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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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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.
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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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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.
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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