I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I was portraying the family through my eyes. Everything that's happened in the strip has happened to me. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
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… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
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… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children. — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
