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Bil Keane

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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.


— Bil Keane


#cartoons #eye #go #heart #i

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.


— Bil Keane


#comic #depend #entire #entire family #family

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


— Bil Keane


#entertainment #family #frontier #good #humor

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.


— Bil Keane


#hugs #invented #know #love #people

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.


— Bil Keane


#bill #cartoons #drawing #i #knocked

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


— Bil Keane


#future #gift #past #present #today






About Bil Keane

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Did you know about Bil Keane?

Keane was honored with the Silver T-Square Award from the National Cartoonist Society in 2002 for "outstanding dedication" to the Society and the cartooning profession. Thel the inspiration for the "Mommy" character in his long-running strip died on May 23 2008 from complications of Alzheimer's Disease.

William Aloysius Keane (October 5 1922 – November 8 2011) 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.

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