Cartoonist Quotes - Page 7

• As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Riding, Astronaut

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats.

  Stephan Pastis

  Running, Needs, Retiring

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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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• 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 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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• I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

  Brian Regan

  Smart, Rejection, Comedian

  Source: www.citypaper.com

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• 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.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Mean, Survival

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

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• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Writing, Drawing

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• 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.

  Walt Kelly

  Self, Hands, People

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

  Chris Ware

  Believe, Done, Wells

  "Q&A: Comix Stars Daniel Clowes, Chris Ware and Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez". Interview with Sean T. Collins, www.rollingstone.com. September 26, 2012.

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• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Fire, Agreement

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Careers, Support, Trying

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• 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.

  Robert Mankoff

  Editors, Want, Might

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

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• 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.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Superhero, Style

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

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• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Movie, Character, Rights

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• 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.

  Garry Trudeau

  Absolutism, World, Speech

  Garry Trudeau's George Polk Awards Speech, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2015.

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• 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.

  Noah Van Sciver

  Littles, Information, Causes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

  Chris Ware

  Trying, Alive, Aim

  "The art of melancholy" by Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2005.

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