Cartoonist Quotes - Page 3

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

  Jules Feiffer

  Quirky, Way, Mets

  "Backing Into Forward: A Memoir". Book by Jules Feiffer, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• If you're a painter, it's simply taken for granted that you'll spend a lot of time in museums studying great paintings, but if you're a cartoonist, it used to be very hard to see an original cartoon drawing.

  Bill Watterson

  Taken, Museums, Drawing

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Publishing House, Novelists

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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• I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seeing how much you can step over it, and I mean, I do that in my personal life, too. I try to anger and piss people off a little bit to try to see what I can get away with. I got in trouble with more than one cartoon.

  Barry Blitt

  Mean, People, Cartoon

  Source: wwd.com

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• There's all kinds of theories among the cartoonists: start with funniest, end with funniest.

  Robert Mankoff

  Kind, All Kinds

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Draws

  Charles M. Schulz (2010). “My Life with Charlie Brown”, p.123, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  School, Drawing, Dinosaurs

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• 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.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Fun, Differences, Illustration

  "Ralph Bakshi on Kanye West, NYC, and his new short, Last Days Of Coney Island". Interview with Ron Hart, film.avclub.com. November 14, 2015.

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• I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Design Work, Knowing, Boards

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• 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.

  Alan Moore

  Song, Writing, Careers

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• In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

  Alan Moore

  Careers, Long, Way

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• Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

  Lynda Barry

  Names, Awful, Quiet

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

  John Kricfalusi

  Artist, Illustrators

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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