Quotessence
Home / Topics / Cartoonist Quotes

Cartoonist Quotes

Browse 195 quotes about Cartoonist.

Related topics

ThinkingCartoonPeopleComicIfsTryingWorldDrawsWayArtDrawingPoliticalWantedArtistWritingLooksKindFunKnowsStoriesEnoughMeanStills

Cartoonist Quotes

“I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like being deflated, which makes it all the more important to continue to deflate them. These are very courageous people around the world who poke fun from inside these societies. So, we now have to broaden the definition of what we mean by "writer" to include bloggers, cartoonists, song writers, visual artists - all these people are, in different ways, quite brave.”

PeopleWorldMeanImportantDifferentArtistSongFunBraveCourageousRulersCartoonistVisual ArtPoke
Author:Salman Rushdie
Create image

“During the production of the Steamboy film, what I put my most effort in was the process of layouts, and I did my best to check every detail. Once this process is done precisely, we will get great backgrounds from our art team. This makes the team effort fun. I can't create a movie by myself. It is worthy only because many staff bring new ideas and techniques. I think the appeal of being the director is to encounter such new things, which I don't possess. It is absolutely wonderful to create something new based on teamwork. It is something that I couldn't appreciate in my cartoonist days.”

ThinkingArtDoneFilmFunEffortWonderfulTeamAppreciateWorthySomething NewTeamworkCartoonist
Author:Katsuhiro Otomo
Create image

“I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.”

PeopleThinkingPoliticalHateInterestNaturalAdmireCartoonCartoonist
Author:Robert Mankoff
Create image

“Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan Moore is probably the most radical guy you'll ever meet. I grew up loving those guys, so my heroes, as a kid, were radical cartoonists, essentially. I couldn't help but - I grew up in a left-wing household. But I do think it's fun, writing right-wing characters. I've found it interesting, just as a writer, to get inside their heads and make them likeable.”

PeopleThinkingWritingCharacterHelpingKidsGuyFunInterestingHeroRadicalMy HeroCartoonistLikeable
Author:Mark Millar
Create image

“A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are no technical, electronic or financial limitations; one only has to work harder to improve. Lately I think a new attitude has prevailed that comics aren't inherently an Art form, but that some cartoonists are genuinely artists.”

ThinkingArtArtistAttitudeVisionHard WorkFinancialComicLimitationPurityWork HarderCartoonist
Author:Chris Ware
Create image

“I do worry that beginning cartoonists could feel somewhat strangled by the increasing critical seriousness comics has received of late and feel, like younger writers, that they have to have something to "say" before they set pen to paper. Many cartoonists feel even more passionate about this idea than I do, vehemently insisting that comics are inherently "non-art" and poop humor or whatever it is they think it is, but that attitude is a little like insisting that all modern writing should always take the form of The Canterbury Tales.”

ThinkingWritingAttitudeWorryModernLike YouPassionatePensSeriousnessCartoonistCanterbury Tales
Author:Chris Ware
Create image

“Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit a commercial or ancillary purpose; not that cartooning can't be this (see any restaurant giveaway comic book or superhero media property as an example), but comics written and produced by a cartoonist sitting alone by him- or herself are not illustrations. They don't illustrate anything at all, they literally tell a story.”

BookPurposeStylePropertyComicArtisticApplicationComic BookSuperheroCartoonist
Author:Chris Ware
Create image

“I guess I consider myself a cartoonist first, though I was "trained" as a painter/printmaker/sculptor. If there's still any resistance to cartooning in the nuts-and-bolts world of acquiring the means of survival, it's probably mostly on the pay scale. If graphic novels are selling really well and are "growing the book market" or whatever it is a businessman would say about them, I don't see it in the remuneration offered by some of the publishers.”

WorldMeanBookNovelSurvivalSellingPainterBusinessmanGraphicCartoonist
Author:Chris Ware
Create image

“I lose faith every time I have to start a new page, and this is no joke. I've occasionally been criticized over the past couple of years for publicly "complaining" about how difficult drawing comics is, yet I've only mentioned it so that the younger cartoonists who are trying it out and finding it difficult and painful realize that they're not alone. There's not really any set way of learning how to do this, and it's always a struggle to improve, and, more importantly, see accurately whether or not one's work is communicating any shred of feeling or truth at all.”

TryingFeelingsPastDifficultRealizingStruggleCoupleJokesPainfulCommunicateComplainingNot AloneOver The PastCartoonist
Author:Chris Ware
Create image

“Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.”

MeanAttentionBreakWeekOddDepressingElectricityTrickyCartoonistMost Depressing
Author:Barry Blitt
Create image

“I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask yourself if it's something you genuinely think is funny. Or is it starting to fall into just a category, just kind of a shtick thing? I think it's important for all cartoonists to be honest with themselves about their own sense of humor and what they're doing.”

ThinkingKindImportantFallHonestBeing HonestSense Of HumorCartoonistHonest With YourselfBe Honest With Yourself
Author:Gary Larson
Create image

“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. If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective. I draw cartoons now, not how it will appear in the newspaper, but how it will appear on the screen. I think most of us do. Now the challenge is to make it move and animate it in a very fast, quick way.”

ThinkingMovingChallengesComputerCartoonCartoonist
Author:Terry Mosher
Create image

“Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was a very acceptable balance what people would talk about in public. And I wanted to stretch those and move further out. And as the civil rights movement began, I started doing cartoons on that and on sit-ins and I was, along with Bill Mauldin, a great cartoonist out of World War II, arguably one of two white cartoonists doing this kind of work, Bill and me.”

PeopleWorldKindLongWarCountryMovingBalanceConservativeCivil RightsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICartoonCivil Rights MovementCartoonist
Author:Jules Feiffer
Create image

“And all the things I thought were mistakes and I did cartoons on them. And then I think I was the first cartoonist in the country to attack the war in Viet Nam and that helped influence a whole generation of young cartoonists who later on took up the battle. And that was exciting to know that I had helped influence work of young people who were moving this forum into a better and more exciting area, out of the more by the state that political cartooning had been in.”

PeopleThinkingWarCountryMovingPoliticalMistakeInfluenceBattleExcitingCartoonCartoonist
Author:Jules Feiffer
Create image

“When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of the past, like Cliff Sterrett, who did "Polly and Her Pals," or Winsor McCay who did "A Little Nemo in Slumberland," and Herriman - and I just looked through these guys and looked for somebody to steal. You know, looked for who I could swipe, or turn into - who's work I will turn into my work. And I still use, after all these years, these artists as inspirations. So, here in my eighties, I go back to when I was eight for my inspiration.”

BookInspirationPastArtistGuyLibraryStealingCartoonist
Author:Jules Feiffer
Create image

“I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to is of course iPod and this pod and that, I mean stuff I don't even begin to know - I never learned how to type for Christ's sake! I can't get in her head and find out what she would do if she had the kind of talent I had, I don't have a clue. Every generation comes up with its own quirkiness and its own culture which gets its inspiration from what's in the air at that time.”

KindMeanInspirationCultureTalentDaughterClue19th CenturyCartoonist
Author:Jules Feiffer
Create image

“I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. When I back up a car, I'm more likely to hit what's behind me than not, because I have no vision for it. I've never been able to play games or play cards because I can't in my head get the next move. I've never been able to balance a checkbook. So there's some brain damage, but it may be that very brain damage that allows me to do the work I do. I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.”

MovingBrainVisionCarBalanceQuirkyCartoonist
Author:Jules Feiffer
Create image

“Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces.”

IfsWayWritingTryingFirstsSongCareersPiecesListeningDelusionListening To MusicCartoonistBack In The DayAdequacy
Author:Alan Moore
Create image

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”

LoveNeedsLittlesFunnyWomenHurtLove IsFoodHealthHumorousWittyChocolateNow And ThenValentineValentine's DayI Love YouDessertBest LoveFunny LoveCartoonistCute LoveFood LoveInspiring LoveFood And DrinkLove Is All You NeedFunny FoodFunny Valentines DayValentine LoveValentines Day LoveRomantic Valentines DayFunny ValentineSt ValentineHappy ValentinesChocolate CakeHappy Valentines DayCute Valentines DayFunny EasterHappy Valentines Day FunnyValentines Day CardsBe My ValentineSweet ValentineYummyBest FoodChocolate ChipsFunny Single Valentines DayFunny ChocolateValentines Day SpecialHumorous LoveCute ValentineShort Valentines DayFriend ValentineFunny Valentines Day CardValentines GreetingsShort ValentineFunniest LoveSweets And DessertsBox Of ChocolatesChocolate BarsHumorous ValentineSweet Valentines DayFood And LoveFunny RomanticLove ChocolatesLove LineValentine SpecialValentine CardPerfect Food
Author:Charles M. Schulz
Create image