Quotes by Cartoonists

My first influences were superhero artists. Scott McCloud

First Superhero Were Artists Influences

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that. Scott McCloud

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes. Sergio Aragones

Day Jokes Every Day Every Unpublished Pick New Come Like Material Years Brain Up Again Them Use Reason

The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born. Sergio Aragones

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My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic. Sergio Aragones

Best National Collection Geographic Sources National Geographic Travels

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics. Sergio Aragones

World Enter Comics End Trying

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out. Sergio Aragones

Great Medium Out Comics Lot Get Stories

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject. Sergio Aragones

Variations Generally New Course Subject Same Often Produce

I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard. Sergio Aragones

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I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea. Sergio Aragones

Never Idea Weird Hours Know Very Get Going Keep

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it. Sergio Aragones

Time You Complicated Thinking Spend Way Drawing About More Gag

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action. Sergio Aragones

Character You Action Once Go Established Where Elaborate Expressions

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design. Sergio Aragones

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The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. Sergio Aragones

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story. Sergio Aragones

Will Long Continuous Western Story

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer. Seth

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For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness. Seth

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As I get older and I see all my friends starting to have children, I see them have different reactions to the material that was probably not of great interest to them when they were younger, because they're re-experiencing it through their kids. Seth

Great Older All My Friends Kids See Through Reactions Because Material Were Friends Get Children Different Interest Them Younger Starting

You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time. Seth

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done. Seth MacFarlane

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