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If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. -- Shel Silverstein
If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high. -- John Kricfalusi
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. -- Scott Adams
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. -- Ralph Bakshi
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. -- Lynda Barry
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. -- Walt Disney
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. -- Humphrey Lyttelton
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. -- Ted Rall
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. -- Ralph Bakshi
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. -- Jerome Kern
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. -- Bill Watterson
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
I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. -- Harvey Pekar
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up. -- Ted Rall
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. -- Lynda Barry
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. -- Chris Ware
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir? and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. -- Roy Lichtenstein
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. -- Jonathan Lethem
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future. -- Cathy Guisewite
There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. -- Paul Conrad
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
I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. -- Terry Gilliam
What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification. -- Glenn Greenwald
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
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. -- Chris Ware
My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. -- Robert Crumb
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. -- Dr. Seuss
Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier. -- Scott Adams
I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish. -- Jeff Kinney
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. -- Liza Donnelly
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. -- Stephan Pastis
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about. -- Jonathan Shapiro
It's always a nice feeling, having people think that you feel things much deeper than you're allowed to say, but this isn't true. If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. -- Shel Silverstein
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
I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write. -- R. L. Stine
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
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have. -- Kathryn Bigelow
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are. -- Stephan Pastis
I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something. -- Matt Groening
As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in need of advocacy, moral support or sympathetic understanding; they have already organised sufficient publicity for themselves and prosecute their points of view with great efficiency. -- Michael Leunig
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary. -- Bill Plympton
Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born. -- Jeff Kinney
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
A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input. -- Mark Hamill
I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck. -- Walter Lantz
I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways. -- Jules Feiffer
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING. -- Charles M. Schulz
In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true! -- Art Spiegelman
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder. -- Gene Luen Yang
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I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. -- Bill Watterson
A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself. -- Charles M. Schulz
The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist. -- Chuck Jones
I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was. -- Mike Royer
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! -- Bill Watterson
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. -- John Updike
In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. -- Michael Leunig
I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment. -- David Rees
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. -- Berkeley Breathed
Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame. -- Bill Watterson
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
I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist. -- Jeff Smith
I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out. -- Gene Luen Yang
One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist. -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works. -- Terry Mosher
I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va. -- Jim Toomey
As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like. -- Frank Miller
As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line. -- Scott Adams
Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist. -- Stan Smith
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer. -- Robert Mankoff
Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult and pay the rent. -- David Rees
The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry. -- Gene Luen Yang
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things. -- Jonathan Shapiro
You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low. -- John Kricfalusi
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
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
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
The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously. -- Demetri Martin
When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire. -- Bill Watterson
One of the perks of being a New Yorker cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative. -- Liza Donnelly
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. -- Jeff Lemire
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney. -- Roy Lichtenstein
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
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction." -- Jonathan Lethem
When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam. -- Michael Ramirez
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
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
If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually. -- Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
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
When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me. -- Jeff Lemire

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