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Bil Keane Biography

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 newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane.

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

Away, Boomerang, Friendship, Hug, Love, Real Friends

Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Gift, Powerful, Present, Today, Yesterday And Today, Yesterday Is History

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Daddy, Divorce, Family, Father, Like, Mommy

A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

Chapel, Home, Peaceful, Place, Sacred

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

Gonna, Needs, Rely, Simple, Tell, Tired

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.

Drawing, Northeast, Notoriety, Published, School, Teacher

OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

Busy, Children, Ideal, Mother, Parenting, Raising

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Cartoon, Character, Characters, Panel, Think, Thinking

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

Future, Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Present, Today

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.

Belly, Drawing, Important, Laugh, Laughing, Throat

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Face, Faces, Forget, Funny, Pace

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

Art, Draw, Homework, Imitating, Taught

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.

Eye, Heart, Laughing, Throat, Tug

Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

Children, Feeling, Feelings, Love, Love Is, Wrong

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

Comic, Entertainment, Family, Frontier, Good, Lasts

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.

Dear, Father, Kids, Mother

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.

Family, Looks, Magazines, Page, Television