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Quotes by Cartoonist
"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."
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"Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred."
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"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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"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."
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"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."
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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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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
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"The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman."
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"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"
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"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
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"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film."
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"We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more."
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"All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, and no matter how hard we've tried to prove them wrong, they all think it about us now. And the really annoying thing is, they're probably right."
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"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy."
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"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."
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"I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult."
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"If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have."
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"If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind."
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"The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke."
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
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"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
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"After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away."
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"For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done."
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"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
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"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
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"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."
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"There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon."
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"I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
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"If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often."
Time,
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
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"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
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"I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading."
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"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
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"I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page."
Love,
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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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"In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks."
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