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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?"
Bed,
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"The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal."
10
"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
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"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"
10
"I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."
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"I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up."
10
"Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice."
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"That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming."
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"I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design."
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"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible."
10
"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."
10
"Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups."
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"What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener."
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"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."
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"My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons."
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"I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary."
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"I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age."
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"Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally."
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"I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years."
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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
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"I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach."
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"Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better."
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"You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present."
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"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
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"When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."
Sex,
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"I am a working woman. I take care of a home. I hold down a job. I am nuts."
9
"If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one."
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"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."
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"While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience."
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"Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race."
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"It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity."
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"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
9
"I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians."
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"My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before."
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"One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off."
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"In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt."
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"Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?"
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
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"I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow."
Will,
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"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."
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"If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately."
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"I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!"
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