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“One of the perks of being a New Yorker cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.”

People Interesting Creative Fellows New Yorkers Cartoonist Perks

Author:Liza Donnelly

“Being a naive 20-something I didn't think that I could just go to the screen cartoonist's union, that I was a member of, and scream bloody murder and they would have jumped all over this guy and said, "Oh, but yes he does get screen credit."”

Thinking Doe Said Guy Members Murder Unions Credit Screens Scream Bloody Naive This Guy Cartoonist

Author:Mike Royer

“I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.”

Real Adventure Bags Cartoonist

Author:Mike Royer

“I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.”

“When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future.”

People Looks Stills Games Willing Directors Retiring Cartoonist Tokens Movie Director

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a cartoonist. Or a professional roller-skater. But there wasn't much support for those on career day.”

Trying Stills Young Careers Support Stage Trade Magician Cartoonist Skater

Author:Jason Mraz

“I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was that they could fire me or I could quit with no questions asked if things didn't work out during the first few months. Sure enough, things didn't work out, and they fired me, no questions asked.”

Ifs Firsts Enough Jobs Fire Months Six Work Out Quitting Trials Posts Agreement Arrangements Six Months Cartoonist Editorials Questions Asked

Author:Bill Watterson

“I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.”

Thinking Political Break Fields Paper Tough Newspapers Papers Reluctant Cartoonist

Author:Bill Watterson

“I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.”

Thinking Political Instinct Killers Cartoonist Great Political Killer Instinct

Author:Bill Watterson

“Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.”

Enough Dialogue Cartoonist Clout

Author:Bill Watterson

“I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.”

Higher Paper Standards Papers Measuring Cartoonist Higher Standards

Author:Bill Watterson

“I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part.”

Writing Hard Fun Drawing Vary Cartoonist

Author:Bill Watterson

“I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.”

Way Mets Quirky Cartoonist

Author:Jules Feiffer

“Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.”

World Ends Social Speech Around The World Score Free Speech Riot Cartoonist Absolutism

Author:Garry Trudeau

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.”

Spring Obstacles Cartoonist

Author:Scott Adams

“I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.”

Kind Art Wanted Art Is Claims Journalism Floating Cartoonist

Author:Jeff Smith

“As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.”

Wells Humor Funny Lines Space Behinds Fans Cat Dancing Newspapers Cartoonist Vacant Distraught Congas

Author:Scott Adams

“The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher? Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.”

“I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do.”

Ifs Trying Heart Reality Working It Cartoon Grotesque Cartoonist

Author:Terry Gilliam

“When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.”

States Able My Own Figures Battle Anxiety Independence Constant Financial Obligation Insecurity Cartoonist

Author:Al Jaffee

“Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression that he's drawing. But when I would write a story - I know it's going to sound almost ridiculous and infantile - I would, in a way, start living it.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Stories Faces Sound Watches Expression Draws Mouths Sitting Drawing Ridiculous Sitting Down Curls Cartoonist Infantile Funny Face

Author:Al Jaffee

“Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.”

Form Artist Failing Advice Acceptance Perspective Draws Sitting Tables Dinner Backgrounds Helpful Bent Invited Sitting Down Cartoonist Implicit Drafting

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."”

Thinking Past Artist Felt Race Impact Deny Asian Think Of Me Cartoonist

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.”

Littles Bucks Cartoonist Old Car

Author:Walter Lantz

“I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.”

Wells Looks Fun Differences Illustration Cartoonist Soulful Wacky Uptight

Author:Ralph Bakshi

“As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.”

Want Might Realizing Approach Editors Preference Subjective Cartoonist

Author:Robert Mankoff

“To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.”

“The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure.”

Giving Possibility Realms Digital Cartoon Exposure Cartoonist

Author:Robert Mankoff

“Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.”

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“I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.”

“The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.”

Choices Names Profession Uncles Chuck Cartoonist

Author:Chuck Jones

“When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.”

Thinking Trying Believe Desire I Believe Responsibility Honestly Satisfying Whim Cartoonist

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Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Week Editors Cartoon Rushing Cartoonist

Author:Robert Mankoff

“Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.”

Process Creative Creative Process Viewers Cognitive Cartoonist

Author:Robert Mankoff

“If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.”

Ifs Fall Presses Cartoonist Insincere

Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know.”

Knows Hard Able Young Sticks Sand Cartoonist

Author:Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

“Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the burning of embassies or the kidnapping of people designated as the enemy. Islam rejects guilt by association. Just as Muslims should not blame all Westerners for the poor taste of a cartoonist who wanted to be offensive, those horrified by the spectacle of rent-a-mob sackings of embassies in the name of Islam should not blame all Muslims for what is an outburst of fascist energy.”

“Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.”

Thinking Years Wanted Jobs Opportunity Creative Crazy Fields Publication Deadline Cartoonist

Author:David Rees

“I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.”

Thinking Dream Becoming Disappointment Cartoonist

Author:David Rees

“Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent.”

Order Pay Adults Responsible Cartoonist

Author:David Rees

“I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to see that a lot of young aspiring cartoonists are putting stuff on the web, doing animation on the computer rather than making zines or mini-comics, which seem to be going the way of the dinosaur.”

Way Seems Young Stuff Creativity Effects Computer Speed Nervous Animation Dinosaurs Cartoonist High Speed Zines

Author:Adrian Tomine

“I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do is capture the popular feeling of the time about a politician or a particular political issue. For that reason I think it sums up public attitudes that is very helpful to historians down the road.”

Thinking Trying Important Reason Feelings Political Attitude Issues Particular Politician Drawing Helpful Reviews Capture Historian Down The Road Cartoonist Political Issues

Author:Terry Mosher

“For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.”

Young Information Cartoonist

Author:Terry Mosher

“I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.”

Thinking Knows America College Cartoonist Editorials Fraternity

Author:Berkeley Breathed

“I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.”

Art Taught Draws Homework New Yorkers Cartoonist Imitating

Author:Bil Keane

“Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.”

Art School Artist Stuff Parent Class Mets Drawing Cartoonist Art School Best Artist

Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“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.”

Thinking Writing Different Courses Fun Interesting Activity Drawing More Time Consuming Cartoonist Time Consuming

Author:Alison Bechdel

“If I can educate a little, that's great; if I can cause somebody to go and seek out further information about Lincoln, that's excellent, but, I'm an entertainer, you know? I'm not a historian, I'm a cartoonist.”

Ifs Knows Littles I Can Causes Information Excellent Historian Educate Entertainers Cartoonist

Author:Noah Van Sciver

“I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren't getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Art Artist Attention Talking Internet Notes Comic Instant Online Discouraged Gratification Cartoonist Instant Gratification Aggravated

Author:Liz Prince

“Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.”

Thinking Want Trying Sometimes Jobs Faces Middle Goes On Politician Committed Staying Sense Of Humor Slap Cartoonist

Author:Sergio Aragones

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