In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
BIL KEANEI think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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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.
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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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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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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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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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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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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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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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Time goes by at such a pace,it’s funny how it’s easy to forget her face
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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.
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Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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