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It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.
Steve Breen
Sometimes
Big
Our
Drawing
Wrap
Cartoons
Head
Most
Around
Editorial
Big Story
Biggest
Story
Us
Your
Hard
Professional
Lives
I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.
Steve Breen
Jokes
Cartoons
Silly
Delinquent
Goofy
Practical
Am
Doing
Scout
Being
After
Loved
Little
Subversive
Eagle
Playground
A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.
Steve Breen
Clever
Bicycle
Some
Generate
Bound
Gorilla
Captions
Riding
When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.
Steve Breen
Fall
President
Out
Cartoons
Doing
George
Iraq
Soviet
Soviet Union
Bush
Union
Starting
I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.
Steve Breen
Today
News
Online
New
Read
Go
Blogs
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Then
USA
USA Today
Fox
Fox News
I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.
Steve Breen
Work
Pen
India
Pens
Brush
Like
Also
Quill
Board
Use
Ink
Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
Steve Breen
Women
Men
Beauty
Difficult
Caricature
More
Partly
Because
Women Are
Than
Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
Steve Breen
You
Drawings
Cartoons
Point
Opinion
Want
Them
Viewpoint
Express
When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.
Steve Breen
Funny
Day
Daily
You
People
Better
Pressure
First
Kind
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Cartoonist
Something
Tens
Tens Of Thousands
Knowing
Learn
Terrified
How
Editorial
Still
Were
Expect
Going
Hole
Little
Next
Filling
Daily Basis
Cope
Started
Basis
Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland.
Steve Breen
Birthplace
Obama
Budget
Policies
Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
Steve Breen
You
Big
Address
Angles
Part
Lots
Want
Stories
Decide
Story
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Ted Rall
You
Eyes
Birds
Something
Head
Look
Tilt
Lot
Them
Expression
Stare
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
Ted Rall
News
You
Incomplete
Cartoon
Headlines
Information
Based
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
Ted Rall
Saying
First
Boss
Moron
Step
First Step
Up
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
Best
You
Walk
Cartoonist
About
Someone
Know
Pieces
Up
Being
Bar
Apartment
Your
Thing
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall
Writing
Nothing
Analysis
Ruin
Silk
About
Direct
More
Structured
Rely
Road
Like
Well
Very
Quotes
Notes
Use
Away
Right
Right Away
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall
State
Most
Anti-American
Planet
Ground
Pakistan
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall
Generation
First
Think
Society
First Generation
Integrate
American
Successfully
American Society
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall
Good
Me
Jazz
Enjoy
Think
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall
Great
Think
Written
Anyone
Graphic
Novel
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
Ted Rall
Better
Out
Cartoonist
Cartoonists
Because
Editorial
Many
Awful
Default
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall
Good
You
Better
Big
Too
Say
Out
Kind
Objective
Morally
Wrong
Stuff
Like
Genre
Another
Because
Comics
Than
Any
Cuts
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall
Loathe
Respectful
Pretty
Bosses
Point
American
Workers
American Workers
Let's make some funny pictures.
Tex Avery
Funny
Some
Pictures
Make
What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.
Tom Wilson
Needs
Experience
Country
Charging
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Things
Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
Tom Wilson
Some
More
None
Than
Capable
Us
Many
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