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Quotes by Cartoonist
"As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."
2
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."
2
"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."
2
"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."
2
"Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could."
2
"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
2
"I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core."
2
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
2
"Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time."
2
"There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair."
2
"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life."
2
"Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny."
2
"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."
2
"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."
Life,
2
"I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent."
2
"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
2
"Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then."
2
"The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television."
2
"Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none."
2
"The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is."
2
"I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar."
2
"When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information."
2
"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
2
"There was a beautiful time in the beginning when I just did it and didn't analyze the consequences, but I think that time ends in everyone's work."
2
"I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably."
2
"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."
2
"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
2
"If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel."
Rank,
2
"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
2
"I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important."
2
"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
2
"What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character."
2
"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."
2
"Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to."
2
"Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?"
Bed,
2
"The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal."
2
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
2
"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"
2
"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."
2
"Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal."
2
"Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence."
2
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