Cartoonist Quotes

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

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default. — Michael Leunig

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder. — Gene Luen Yang

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

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

The thing that I came to realize was that Schulz is the great unifier. Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on. — Chip Kidd

I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck. — Walter Lantz

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

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail. — Humphrey Lyttelton

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

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. — Jean-Michel Basquiat

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. — Bill Watterson

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

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

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

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics. — Pete Hamill

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 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

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

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

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. — Robert Crumb

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'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that. — Adrian Tomine

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. — Berkeley Breathed

If you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist. — Oliver Gaspirtz

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 am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic. — Robert Mankoff

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input. — Mark Hamill

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist. — Robert Mankoff

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. — John Updike

It's impossible to get worse at something you do every day. — Brad Guigar

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

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern

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

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque. — John Updike

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists. — Michael Leunig

The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist. — Chuck Jones

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

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

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

If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist. — Don Wright

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true! — Art Spiegelman

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

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? — Charles M. Schulz

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

I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was. — Mike Royer

Ya don't hafta be crazy to be a good cartoonist, but it sure helps! — Sheldon Mayer

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

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent. — Walt Kelly

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

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist
how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! — Bill Watterson

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself. — Charles M. Schulz

It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world. — Adrian Tomine

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

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful. — Ted Rall

I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways. — Jules Feiffer

Remember: I am a cartoonist. If you follow my advice on safety around nuclear materials, you probably deserve whatever happens to you. — Randall Munroe

Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter. — P. J. O'Rourke