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.
From Bil Keane
They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
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.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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.
A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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.
I don't just try to be funny.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives