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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
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Bil Keane
Age: 89 †
Born: 1922
Born: October 5
Died: 2011
Died: November 8
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
William Aloysius Keane
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