Comic Strips Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Memories, Ambition, Thinking

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• Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

  Guy Pearce

  Tea, Stuff, Cups

  "Guy Pearce on Batman, Being Offered Daredevil, and Avoiding Terrible Scripts". Interview with Gwynne Watkins, www.vulture.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  Garry Trudeau

  Years, Able, Comic

  "Trudeau Reflects On Four Decades Of 'Doonesbury'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 26, 2010.

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• Through my newspaper comic strip, public speaking, and filmmaking, I try to tell as many people as possible, of all ages and from all walks of life, that we are destroying the ocean at such an alarming rate that we can't wait for a systematic solution. We can't wait for our political leadership to warm up to the idea, and we can't wait for the free market to find alternatives. We must act as individuals, now.

  Jim Toomey

  Ocean, Ideas, People

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• I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

  Bill Watterson

  Use, Firsts, Hobbes

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.

  Matt Groening

  Years, Ideas, Drawing

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• I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Going Out, Way

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

  Matt Groening

  People, Mind, Trying

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Grandmother, Typewriters

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• I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and adventure stories, should have had such an immediate and profound effect upon radio listeners.

  Orson Welles

  Children, Adventure, Should Have

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• We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, Drawing, Cartoon

  "You Didn’t Hear the One About..." by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

  Federico Fellini

  Imagination, Literature, Comic

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• Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged into comic strip history... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.

  Leonard Maltin

  Book, Disney Animation, Feelings

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• We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. There are certain things that are usable, forceful, and vital about commercial art. We're using those things – but we're not really advocating stupidity, international teenagerism, and terrorism.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

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• I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

  Lynda Barry

  Remember, Wave, Comic

  The Onion Interview, www.avclub.com. December 8, 1999.

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Swimming, Cinema

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• Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

  Norman Mailer

  Sandman, Comic

  "Dream come true: Neil Gaiman to create new Sandman 'prequel'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2012.

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• You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Space, Littles

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• It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to be a star. No, the problem of Upper Volta is more serious than that. It was a grave mistake to have looked for a man, a star, at all costs, to the point of creating one, that is, to the point of attributing the ownership of the event to captain Sankara, who must have been the brains, etc.

  Thomas Sankara

  Stars, Mistake, Men

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• Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

  Don Herold

  Art, Husband, Comic

  Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”

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• In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Hands, Comic Book

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• If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Comic, Draws, Ifs

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• There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

  Gabriel Ba

  Years, Brazil, Comic

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

  Jim Davis

  Children, Struggle, Reading

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