Quotes by Cartoonists

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart. Bil Keane
Heart Laugh Eye Cartoons Throat Go Tug Nostalgia Many Tear Lump Belly
I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally. Bil Keane
Think Panel Strip Characters Cartoon Cartoon Characters Cross Over Occasionally Another Novelty
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. Bil Keane
Good Family Entertainment Humor Comics Frontier Wholesome Last
I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me. Bil Keane
Love Family Me Mother Father Kids Feel Between Like Dear Doing Subject Where Near
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
Art Myself Day Homework Imitating Draw Cartoonists Never Studied Instead New Doing Yorker Taught New Yorker
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it. Bill Mauldin
Living Earn Born Troublemaker Well Might
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life. Bill Watterson
Life You Control Expect Your Butter Peanut Peanut Butter
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. Bill Watterson
Winning Like Lottery Snow Getting Cents Inch
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere. Charles M. Schulz
You Matter Believe Way See Sincere Just
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up. Charles M. Schulz
Me Lie Sometimes Nothing Voice Name Come Answers Up Personal Just Happened Ask Then Your Awake Why Night
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schulz
Life Home Illusion More Gives Than Interesting Decorate Really Your
There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from. Charles M. Schulz
Problem Big Run No Problem Cannot Away
I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant. Garry Trudeau
Try Relevant Characters Only Readers Still Up Decide Whether Interesting Keep
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm. Gary Larson
Nature Will Worm Worms Earth All Things Message Role Much Inherit Lowly Even Play Things
The problem when you're a cartoonist and you go into the voting booth is that you have your choice of two guys - one would be best for your country, and one would be best for your business. Jeff MacNelly
Best You Business Problem Voting Country Booth Would Would-Be Cartoonist Guys Go Choice Your Two
My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh. Jim Davis
Life World Everyone Laugh Dream Write Makes Gag
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth. Joseph Barbera
Ride Tooth Toothache Out Bad Tried Faced Generally Dentist Going Enduring Choice
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? Jules Feiffer
Our Dare Martyrdom Make His Sins Died Forgive Committing Them Meaningless Jesus
People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story. Len Wein
Good People Looking Characters More Sacrificed Looking Good Concerned Readers Sake Were Story Themselves Then Who Series
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. Lynn Johnston
Good You Complaining Long About Person
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher. Matt Groening
Teacher Angry You People Back Drawing Cartooning Classroom Because Go Sitting Shy
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again. Matt Groening
Will Know Did Again Why Enjoyed
I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy. Matt Groening
Life Me Crazy Happy Thought Made Rest My Life Think Enough Cartoons Drew Knew Well Make Well Enough Get Going Paid Ever
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with. Michael Leunig
World Innocent Become Sense Organ Brutality Sonic Contend Within Intelligent Times Flagrant Modern Nose Disillusioned Modern World Sensitive Little Poor Then Much Creature Deeply Ear
It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God. Michael Leunig
God Easter All-Powerful He Failed Fails Like Most His Human Jesus Humans
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. Ralph Steadman
Good Game Good And Evil World Evil Moral Authority Rest Changing Channels Relevant Has-Been Moral About More Between Opinion Been Than Authority Difference Laid Game Show Show
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