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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
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 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
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
BIL KEANE

Invention Love Silence Talk Yourself
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
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Goal One Liner
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
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
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Began Go Goal
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
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Divorce Family Himself Mom
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Life Love Sick Start
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Just Trying
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
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
BIL KEANE

Gift God Present

Goal begins with “GO.”

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