In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil KeaneWe are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
Bil KeaneI think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
Bil KeaneOn 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 KeaneYesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Bil KeaneI 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.
Bil KeaneWhen 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.
Bil KeaneMany of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.
Bil KeaneI never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
Bil KeaneMany 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 KeaneSometimes I get the feeling that I'm stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme
Bil KeaneOh 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
Bil Keane