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Quotes by Cartoonist
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
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"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
Old,
5
"If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more."
5
"I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life."
5
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
5
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
5
"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great."
5
"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
5
"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."
Men,
5
"What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has."
5
"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."
5
"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."
5
"That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kindly. She was terrified of men, and she married a very meek, kind, dear man. And she had the upper hand. She ruled the roost."
5
"Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut."
5
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
5
"I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt."
5
"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
5
"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
5
"Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him."
5
"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
5
"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."
5
"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
5
"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
5
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
5
"Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us."
5
"When sadness happens in the middle of work, I separate my personal grief from my train of thought."
5
"If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers."
5
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
5
"Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action."
5
"Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end."
5
"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."
5
"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."
5
"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."
4
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
4
"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."
4
"Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
4
"My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective."
4
"I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading."
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