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I don’t just try to be funny.

Bil Keane

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 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 just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Myself One Liner Try
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
BIL KEANE

Friends Friendship Love Real
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
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Life Love Sick Start
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Heart Image Loving Lump Throat Waiting
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

Father Kids Mother
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
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
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

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

Cartoon Character Thinking
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 Feeling Love Lyric Myself Time Wrong
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
BIL KEANE

Divorce Family Himself Mom
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peaceful Sacred
I don’t just try to be funny.
BIL KEANE

Funny Just Trying

I don’t just try to be funny.

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