DFC #470 |
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Image © 1998 Bil Keane, Inc. Distributed by Cowles Synd., Inc. |
"Grey, nappy, tangled, smelly . . kinda reminds me of Grandma coming out of the shower."--Hang Lose
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Uh, Sam? He's . . . ah, out of town. Yeah. Out of town. But he said the puppy support payments are on the way.--Stefan Jones
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"No, no, you're looking for Mary Worth. It's over to the left, between Dondi and Apartment 3G.--Vinegar Tom
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"Sorry, I don't touch anything unless it's in a leather collar."--Vinegar Tom
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It was just a one-night stand. Get over it.--Murray the Hut
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Doggie-style? Hah! We're waaaay beyond that. But thanks for asking.--RoBear
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Barfy was quite the rebel in the sixties. He changed to the clean-cut look only after Reagan took office. Bubble Of Love: A Retrospective, by William Keane, Jr.--Podbeing
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Uh-oh... Jeffy and P.J. are wearing the dog suit... Dad must be in one of his moods again.--Doctor Radium
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Sure, Dolly's Chun Li was passable, Billy's Elmer Fudd was decent, but it was Jeffy's Sheepdog that won first prize that day.--Jenn Dolari
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Prelude to a tracheotomy.--NCB
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"Jesus, we finally trade Jeffy away to For Better Or Worse for that dog of theirs, and already the fucker's trying to upstage me."--Tim Mitchell
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This time, Sam would be the one kicking sand in Billy's face. "Thanks, Charles Atlas!"--Jinikato, God of Fandom
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"...think about it, though: first that huge dent in the wagon, then this new 'Barfy' appears..."--Mungdungus
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"Dammit, we've wandered into the Mark Trail comic strip. I knew we should've taken a left at Ziggy."--Helder
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September 28, 1969: Bil Keane enters the era of peace and love with the caption "Get a haircut, you freakin' hippie!"--Riff
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Keane Kollector Plate #470: The Lady, The Tramp, and the sheepdog.--Stan Xhiao
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What's that, boy? Dad's tied up at the old Keane place? Oh, go back to sleep!--Captain Pedantic
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His flask is missing. Dad must be home.--Anastasia
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Whaddya think, Dolly? Three sets of mittens and a waist coat for Mom?--OneSickPuppy
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"Sheesh, is there any role Dan Aykroyd won't take?"--Heath
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The almost life-like clip-art, the scenery, perspective, nearly round heads... Yep, it's the day after rehab!--Dr. Worm
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A sheepdog stands, capillaries burst from the ground, WWII planes buzz the crucifiction. It must be Un Chien FamCircusalou--Mr. ?
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Yeah, Jeffy, I said it might make you grow hair on your palms. What the hell have you been doing?--Tim Mitchell
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"I told you the bitch would be wearin' your nuts but no, you didn't believe me. Next time hump your own damn leg."--Stan Xhiao
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I dunno, Dolly, maybe you should consider abortion...--Zest-fully Me!
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Well, we're definitely lost. I figure it's the AKC member calendar, around November or so.--phil
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"Sudden weather changes, lost spirits haunting utility poles, demonic creatures on the prowl and we still have to go to school. Damn, the end times suck."--El Caballero
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"Has-been. Hasn't made a good movie since Dogfucker 2: Burying His Bone back in '91."--Dave Matthews
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Don't be stupid. I put P.J. in the well.--p
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"Excuse me sir, we are volunteers and would like to ask some personal questions regarding the upcoming Census. Your identity will remain anonymous. Now your current address is..."--El Caballero
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In the next frame Billy has gutted the dog and the pair have crawled inside the carcass for warmth. -State's Exhibit B in the People vs. Lucasfilm Ltd.--cip
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"All I know is, the sooner dad gets off this taxidermy kick, the better"--blaine[sk]
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"Das ist ein gross Hund, Schwester." "...Das ist ein dorky Hat, Bruder." --Lyric Language "Learn German The Family Circus Way"--Stan Xhiao
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"A dog of the house of Montague moves me." Illustration and caption from page seven of Wm. Keane's horribly misinterpreted The Big Picture Book of Romeo and Juliet. Never published.--Tom. Just Tom.
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"I bet this isn't quite what you expected on the other end of the Rainbow Bridge, eh?"--Stan Xhiao
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"Eyeeees Left! Forwaaaaard March!--Zest-fully Me!
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This cartoon was monitored by the ASPCA. No animals were mutilated, infected, impregnated, sodomized, dismembered, beaten, traumatized or cooked in the making of this panel.--Ken
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Jesus, Dolly, enough with the handstands. I'm trying to tell you about those pills I just took.--bunkosquad
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"You're, like, 106 in human years. So don't give me that aggressive shit or I'll break your hip."--Mycroft
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"Criminy... just when I thought my agent couldn't do any worse, I wind up in the animated remake of Beethoven."--Platypus
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"That's your Satanic Hell-Hound? What lame-ass dark forces have you been summoning?"--The Golden Pony
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Even as a child Castro had a spectacular ability to find hidden escapees--The EXXXorcist
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"I awoke from my idyllic dream of a man, his three boys, a lady, and her three very lovely girls, and a man who delivered meat daily to the housekeeper. I awoke in hell...an alternative hell where Nazis won the war, children wore Wehrmacht uniforms as they patrolled the street for hook-nosed infiltration, and crosses burned in the distance." --Tiger Brady: Dog In The High Castle--Stan Xhiao
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This is getting ridiculous. First they swapped the bagels for the stale donuts, now they replaced the fluff girls with this. Where's my agent?--Figec
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Look over there, his stools are cross-shaped. Must have Hartworms.--Ken![]()
There I was speaking to a dog. Once I came down, I told Dolly never to score acid from a dyslexic again. -- William S. Keane Jr, Fear and Loathing on Page C-6--Ken
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I told you that Marmaduke was going to brag. Now every dog in the neighborhood is gonna come sniffin' 'round for a hump.--Argyle
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Are YOU our daddy?--HOLY JESUS BATFUCK
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There you are! Thel's been in the stirrups for a good hour and a half now, and trust me, that peanut butter gets in everything.--meakim
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...and food, and pants, and self-esteem, and ritalin. All together, I think I asked Santa for about six dozen different things, and not one of the things I asked for was "another damn dog."--Ethanol
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A rare cartoon captured from Dolly's Bubble Gum Crisis obsession.--Nethicus
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In another heartwarming panel, the Keanes are off for a weekend of military re-enactments: Dolly is off to meet Snoopy for the WW1 aviators, Billy is off to the Civil War, while Jeffy and PJ in a sheepdog suit are off to hunt landmines in the Crimea.--Frenchy, the Toad Swallower
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Is there no job Industrial Light and Magic won't take?--Otis
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"Don't worry. On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog in a bad comic strip."--Helder
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"Wow, now there's a level of detail you don't see every day."--Mauser
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Yeah, yeah, I know. You can lick your own balls and drink out of the toilet. That's nothing I haven't seen Dad do.--Elkman
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We play "fetch the stick" a little differently...--Bad Girl
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Nice try, Officer MacKenzie, but I think the judge might be interested in a little thing called "entrapment..."--Bill
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"You don't need to see our identification. We aren't the melonheads you're looking for. Move along." Young Obi Wan Keanobi's first ever use of the Melonheadi Mind Trick--chimp
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"What's that, boy? Jeffy's in hell? Yeah, well, so are we."--Helder
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"Man. The way those flies are swarming, you'd think they would cut that Christ guy down already."--C Benton
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"I see the cattle are straying from the Nguyen family ranch, again."--Cordelia's Dad
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I didn't mind doing a whole panel, start to finish. But sometimes Bil would blotto halfway through a fuckin' panel, then it's Billy to the goddamn rescue. And for that I got what, 2, 3 bucks? "Goddamn Right Today's Panel Was Drawn By Billy" by Billy Keane--Lt. Dan
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"Dolly, do you ever get that not-so-detailed feeling?"--Helder
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"I don't know which is worse, Dolly -- having to ride the schoolbus with all these dogs, or having to tell Dad I flunked 'Fetch'."--Heath
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Jesus, Dolly. Whose turn was it to shave Jeffy this week?--Johnny Meatworth
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