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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

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The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made. Adrian Tomine

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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. Berkeley Breathed

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So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. Bill Sienkiewicz

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I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning. Craig Thompson

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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning. Gary Larson

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I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic strip for 'Roll Call' for about nine years. I sold cartoons and caricatures to 'The Los Angeles Times' and 'The Washington Post.' I drew as much as I could. It's really tough to make a living doing it. Jake Tapper

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In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college. Jeff Kinney

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There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great. Jonathan Shapiro

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You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings. Marjane Satrapi

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting. Max Cannon

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I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolute most important thing. It should also communicate some idea through the medium of cartooning. Just to be funny is... You know what, the things that you laugh hardest at aren't cartoons. Robert Mankoff

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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life. Scott Adams

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For some reason, not many women go into cartooning. Stephen Hillenburg

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The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later. William Jackson

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