Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into the comics. Bil Keane Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. Bil Keane Read Quote
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. Bil Keane Read Quote
Rather than pinpointing any particular part of the country as a place where the family lives, I would prefer to have readers think we live just down the street from their own home. Bil Keane Read Quote
I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. Bil Keane Read Quote
Many 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 Keane Read Quote
We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons. Bil Keane Read Quote
