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I don’t just try to be funny.

Bil Keane

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

Beginning Myself Need Old Simplicity
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
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
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
OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
BIL KEANE

Children Family Mom Myself Raise
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
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
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
BIL KEANE

Earth God Happiness Time
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
Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
BIL KEANE

Faces Forget Pace
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Heart Image Loving Lump Throat Waiting
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 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
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
BIL KEANE

Away Hug Right Yourself
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Goal One Liner

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