"We have five children whom I love dearly and have exploited mercilessly for my cartoons." — Bil Keane

I had this desk alongside the most beautiful Australian 18-year-old girl with long brown hair, and I got up enough nerve to ask her for a date.

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.

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

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.