Bil Keane Quotes

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

Cartooning really is just designing.

Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

I used to draw a lot.

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

Lumped in as a hobby, I don't really like drawing pictures all that much, but thinking of it as work, it's the greatest.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.