Cartoonist Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Silly, Car

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• I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.

  Robert Mankoff

  Cartoon, Income, Way

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• Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Brain, Essentials, Details

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History”, p.40, Macmillan

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• A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

  Mark Hamill

  Input, Whole, Universe

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• There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

  Pat Oliphant

  Art, Strong, Black And White

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

  Edward Ruscha

  Artist, Ideas, Cartoon

  "Ed Ruscha: 'There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  Ted Rall

  Confused, Thinking, Fans

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• I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Kids, Rooms, Sat

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, Connections, Fleeting

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

  David Hornsby

  Cells, Actors, Example

  "David Hornsby Talks Unsupervised Season 1". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 19, 2012.

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• There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.

  Auguste Rodin

  Spiritual, Art, Powerful

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1984). “Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.

  Aaron McGruder

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "The Interview: 'Boondocks' Creator Aaron McGruder". Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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• I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.

  Dan Povenmire

  Years, Guy, Trying

  "We Just Keep Trying to Beat Every Show With the Funny Stick Until It's Funny". Interview with Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. June 10, 2015.

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• So what were Europeans telling their leaders? The general message was perfectly summed up by the cartoonist Chappatte, who drew a group of protesters holding up a placard shouting "Unhappy" - and one of their number shouting through a megaphone into the ballot box. There are 28 member states and 28 varieties of Unhappy.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Numbers, Leader, Unhappy

  "Europe: the continent for every type of unhappy". www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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