In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANEI never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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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.
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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