Author: Bil Keane

Quotes

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

- Bil Keane

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

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

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.

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 Keane

I don't just try to be funny.

I don't just try to be funny.

- Bil Keane

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

- Bil Keane

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

- Bil Keane

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

- Bil Keane

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.

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

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