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 KEANEI 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.
More Bil Keane Quotes
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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 just try to be funny.
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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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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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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He’s just like one of the family.
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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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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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I don’t just try to be funny.
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We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
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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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