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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.

Bil Keane

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

Cartoon Character Thinking
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Just Trying
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
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Family Mom Myself Raise
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
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

Gift God Present
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Divorce Family Himself Mom
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
BIL KEANE

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

Entertainment Family Goodness
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
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peace Place Sacred
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
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

Heart Laughter Myself Tears
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

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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