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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.

Bil Keane

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

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

Faces Forget Pace
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
BIL KEANE

Entertainment Family Goodness
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
BIL KEANE

Invention Love Silence Talk Yourself
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 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
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
BIL KEANE

Home Peaceful Sacred
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
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
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
BIL KEANE

Bitter Life Love Sick Start
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

Family Feeling Love Mom Myself
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
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
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
BIL KEANE

History Powerful Today Yesterday
Goal begins with “GO.”
BIL KEANE

Began Go Goal

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 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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