49 Cartoonist Quotes for You to Enjoy

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. Dr. Seuss

Politics Writing Political Too Much Drop Become Thinking Too Books Out Stay Cartoonist About Because Begin Children Again Much

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born. Jeff Kinney

Book Writing World Tough First Style Kid Dream Cartoonist Cartoons Born Life-Long Had Always How Traditional Mixed Diary Very Wanted Break Newspaper Fulfillment Found Started Playing

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

Sometimes Cartoonist Audience Illustrator

I think it's best to know about lots of different things besides comics. I don't think you can become a cartoonist if you look at nothing but cartoons. Akira Toriyama

Best You Become Nothing Think Besides Cartoonist Cartoons About Know Look Comics Lots Different Different Things Things

It's a secret, but when I decided to apply to 'Shonen Magazine,' it was already past the deadline, so I had no choice but to go with 'Shonen Jump.' My motivation for becoming a cartoonist was... to put it bluntly, the ¥100,000 prize money. Akira Toriyama

Money Past Secret No Choice Cartoonist Magazine Had Put Deadline Becoming Go Motivation Jump Prize Decided Choice Apply

What I regret most after becoming a cartoonist is having used my real name. At first, I figured there was no way I'd sell anyhow, so I didn't even consider using a pen name. Akira Toriyama

Regret First Consider Way Pen Cartoonist Having Name Most Becoming Real Sell Real Name Anyhow After Used Figured Using Even

Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I switched to a career as a writer, I would try to listen to music, but if the songs had lyrics they would get in the way of the words I was trying to write. So I switched to listening to purely instrumental pieces. Alan Moore

Music Day Words Try Listening First Back Lyrics Way Adequacy Would Cartoonist Purely Write Writer Had Songs Delusions Pieces Instrumental Get Trying Listen Switched Started Career

In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. Alan Moore

Long Ways Out Cartoonist Entire Diversion Underground Maybe Wanted Groovy Graphic Many Novel Originally Bring Career

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist. Charlie Brooker

Drawing Carry Cartoonist Cartoons Being Wanted

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. Chris Ware

Myself Think Cartoonist Write Pictures Story Illustrate Illustrator

My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however. Chris Ware

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously. Demetri Martin

Funny Cartoonist Cosby Wright Like Liked Comedians Comedic Steven Obviously Always Were Just Really Bill Bill Cosby Actor Gary

If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist. Don Wright

Cartoonist Wearing Were Uniform Jeans

I wanted to be a cartoonist, and then I wanted to go into film - not as an actor, but as a writer-director - and then I found myself during film school at the University of Southern California listening to the Clarence Thomas hearings in class on my Walkman, and I realized L.A. was not really for me. Jake Tapper

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young. Jean-Michel Basquiat

Young Cartoonist Wanted

When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me. Jeff Lemire

Me Change Writing World Seriously First Become Before Would Cartoonist Since Around Been Stories Decided Then Illustrating Right Watching

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. Jeff Lemire

Day Every Day First Sit Down Every Cartoonist Tend Write Headed Know Beginnings Endings Where Story Storyteller

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story. Jeff Lemire

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist. Jeff MacNelly

You Problem Way Cartoonist Self-Censorship Which Really Should

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things. Jonathan Shapiro

Ways Critical Find Cartoonist See Seeing Some Poke New Content Because Dialogue Contributing New Ways Being Holes Things

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

Life Work Art People Rest My Life Wish Recognized Would Would-Be Cartoonist More Crowd Stuck Label Than Larger

Cartoonist Quotes

No more cartoonist quotes