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Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. -- John Kricfalusi
'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. -- Frank Miller
Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw. -- Frank Miller
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
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel. -- Robert Mankoff
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. -- John Updike
Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever. -- Gene Luen Yang
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. -- Shel Silverstein
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We need more cartoonists to truly retire when they retire, and not run repeats. -- Stephan Pastis
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page. -- Cathy Guisewite
All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in. -- Liza Donnelly
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. -- Ted Rall
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity. -- Patrick Chappatte
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. -- Jim Woodring
Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done. -- Chris Ware
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. -- Bil Keane
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
Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists. -- Berkeley Breathed
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
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
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
At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil. -- Marc Davis
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
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
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
Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world - demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence. -- Patrick Chappatte
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years. -- Jeff Kinney
The digital realm give cartoons and cartoonists more possibilities for exposure. -- Robert Mankoff
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
I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make. -- Bill Watterson
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
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
Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas. -- Jack Ohman
If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites. -- David Horsey
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
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff. -- Mark Alan Stamaty
I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists. -- Michael Crichton

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