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Quotes by Cartoonist
"For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me."
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"People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author."
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"Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought."
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"A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two."
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"I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar."
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"I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons."
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"In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work."
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"With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time."
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"Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry."
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"Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things."
Time,
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"When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought."
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"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking."
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."
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"Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out."
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"I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there."
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"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."
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"Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint."
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"When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes."
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"I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day."
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"We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives."
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"When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places."
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"Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future."
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"The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference."
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"Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there."
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"Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns."
Want,
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"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems."
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"I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea."
Idea,
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"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
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"There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past."
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"A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope."
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"You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story."
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"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."
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"The most unrealistic thing I've ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don't believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil."
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"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."
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"The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening."
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"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more."
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"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."
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"I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist."
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"Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude."
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"So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring."
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"When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject."
Time,
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
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"Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny."
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"The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence."
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