Bil Keane Quotes

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

I had teachers in high school to point me in the direction of the University of Indiana School of Music, and after IU, I went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Philadelphia. I graduated in 2006.

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.

If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part.

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

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.

In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

Yeah, the Mac Life... it's about sipping some tea, getting together with the knitting circle. You know I like origami, right? That's how you get to be notorious.

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to do this as a form of comedy.'

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

I always was songwriting in high school, writing songs while I was supposed to be listening to the teacher.

My kids are good artists, and they do a pretty good version of Dad in their caricatures.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition.

My daughter writes and is the editor of her school magazine.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

When I got to high school, they had a morning TV show you could become a part of, and I started making short films for that, most little satirical, laugh-y films about the dean of students being chased by a dinosaur or something like that. And I really just enjoyed it.

Trump is most fun to draw - just a great mash of caricature-able features, from bouffant to eyebrows and scowl, to the high cheekbones and the regal pride.