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Quotes by Cartoonist
"My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in."
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"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."
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"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."
Men,
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"Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively."
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"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
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"I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?"
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"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."
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"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life."
Life,
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"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
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"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations."
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"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me."
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"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."
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"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."
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"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
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"If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time."
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"I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous."
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"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
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"A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's."
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"If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens."
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"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."
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"Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution."
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"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."
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"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
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"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
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"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again."
Will,
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"I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment."
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"If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile."
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"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
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"Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things."
Time,
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"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
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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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"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself."
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"I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while."
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"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage."
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"I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society."
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"Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future."
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"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
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"I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's."
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"I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it."
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"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."
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