Cartoonist Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Chris Ware

  Attitude, Writing, Thinking

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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

  Robert Mankoff

  Giving, Cartoon, Digital

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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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.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• As a cartoonist, my single goal is to create people with whom, for better or for worse - and regardless of how embarrassing it sounds - I can "fall in love" and somehow feel something deeply about, and through.

  Chris Ware

  Falling In Love, People, Goal

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• I don't like to be constrained to any one medium. I like to surprise and amuse - and indeed, torture - myself by weaving back and forth between images and words of all sorts, and trying to create work in the end that feels "of a piece." This is why I resist calling myself a "cartoonist." It doesn't seem to describe what I do.

  Phoebe Gloeckner

  Trying, Surprise, Torture

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space, and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

  Jessica Abel

  Communication, Ability, Communicate

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• 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.

  Mark Millar

  Fun, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 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.

  Katsuhiro Otomo

  Teamwork, Art, Fun

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Berkeley Breathed

  College, Thinking, America

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

  Michael Crichton

  Media, Assumption, Propaganda

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• I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

  Scott Adams

  Entrepreneur, Would Be, Seeds

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• Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

  Jim Woodring

  Book, Hands, Alternatives

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• The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

  Flemming Rose

  Buddhism, Islam, Cartoon

  "Why I Published Those Cartoons". www.washingtonpost.com. February 19, 2006.

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• People are starting to acknowledge the direction the media is going. This is a good sign that we'll continue to deliver satire and news and opinion in new and different ways. Why be limited by the medium? I hope that there are more cartoonists and people who are willing to try something new.

  Mark Fiore

  Media, People, Trying

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• I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Humor, Political

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• I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

  Mark Hamill

  Home, Actors, World

  "Mark Hamill can't escape 'Star Wars' spotlight". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 10, 2005.

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• Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

  John Kricfalusi

  Artist, Illustrators

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• Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward.

  Trina Robbins

  Drawing, All Time Low, Males

  Trina Robbins (2013). “Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896–2010”, p.174, Fantagraphics Books

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• I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics. . . . I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

  Julie Doucet

  Art, Drawing, People

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• Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

  Jerome Kern

  Important, Use, Language

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• The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  Michael Leunig

  Giving, Balance, Tasks

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• So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.

  Pat Oliphant

  Years, Innovation, Style

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.

  Jack Ohman

  Ideas, Terrorism, Structure

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• 'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

  Frank Miller

  Fun, Dirty, Naughty

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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