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Quotes by Cartoonist
"One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully."
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"When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since."
37
"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."
37
"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money."
37
"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."
37
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
37
"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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"But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!"
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"Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book."
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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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"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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"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."
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"I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math."
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"I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste."
37
"Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!"
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"When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem."
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"Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren't you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies I got! I love having new notebooks and stuff!Calvin:All I've got to say is they're not making me learn any foreign languages. If English is good enough for me, then by golly, it's good enough for the rest of the world! Everyone should just speak English or shut up, that's what I say!Susie: You should maybe check the chemical content of your breakfast cereal."
37
"Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do."
36
"Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray. You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You're ignorant, but at least you act on it."
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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
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"I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women."
36
"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances."
36
"I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more."
36
"Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all."
36
"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
36
"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,
36
"Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too."
36
"Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."
36
"With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself."
36
"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
36
"There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late."
36
"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
36
"If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?"
36
"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."
36
"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."
36
"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."
36
"When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit."
36
"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."
35
"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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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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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer."
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