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I don’t just try to be funny.

Bil Keane

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
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Began Go Goal
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
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Inspirational Life Motivational Present Tomorrow
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.
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Drawing School Teacher
I don’t just try to be funny.
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Funny Myself One Liner Try
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
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Future Gift Past Present Time
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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Character Occasional Thinking
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Just Trying
Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
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Children Feeling Love Lyric Myself Time Wrong
Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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Faces Forget Pace
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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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
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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Eye Heart Laughing
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
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 don’t just try to be funny.

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