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Quotes by Cartoonist
"The main problem was a pacing problem. I had wanted the project to be about 20-30 issues, and I should have written it out as a full script beforehand."
3
"A man should never neglect his family for business."
3
"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
Will,
3
"The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin."
3
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
3
"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home."
3
"Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books."
3
"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."
3
"I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth."
3
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
3
"I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes."
3
"When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist."
3
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
3
"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
3
"I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business."
3
"The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!"
3
"PENTHOUSE didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces."
3
"The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman."
3
"What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener."
2
"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."
2
"My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call."
2
"Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice."
2
"Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word."
2
"This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at."
2
"I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it."
2
"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."
2
"I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true."
2
"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"
2
"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
2
"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."
2
"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."
2
"Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before."
2
"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television."
2
"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."
2
"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
2
"Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book."
2
"I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age."
2
"All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right."
2
"I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day."
2
"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy."
2
"My dog was with me all the time. I talked to my dog. She was my best buddy. I shared all my secrets with her, but I don't think I every really tried jokes out with the dog."
2
"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
2
"They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer."
2
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