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
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
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.
eye heart laughing
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.
pace faces forget
Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face
heart waiting bitter
Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
tired simple needs
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
happy-times earth santa
God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.
mother children parenting
OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
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.
mother father kids
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.
wall names drawing
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.
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.