Bil Keane
Bil Keane
William Aloysius Keane, better known as Bil Keane, was an American cartoonist most notable for his work on the long-running newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth5 October 1922
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
character thinking cartoon
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
magazines television radio
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.
drawing laughing important
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.
children love-is feelings
Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme
father divorce daddy
Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.
trying
I don't just try to be funny.
teacher school drawing
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.
powerful yesterday-and-today yesterday-is-history
Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
home peaceful sacred
A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
art taught homework
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
goal
Goal begins with "GO."
love friendship real-friends
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
valentines-day people hug
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
lasts entertainment comic
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.