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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
Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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 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 never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.
— Jeff Smith
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
Remember: I am a cartoonist. If you follow my advice on safety around nuclear materials, you probably deserve whatever happens to you.
— Randall Munroe
I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.
— Mike Royer
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
— Ted Rall
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
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
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist
how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! — Bill Watterson
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
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
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
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
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