In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANEOn 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.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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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 never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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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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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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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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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 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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Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
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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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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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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.
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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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