Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lemire

When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.

Rebecca Sugar

I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.

Judy Horacek

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

Whilst we respect and revere freedom of speech, we condemn needless desecration and injury of Islamic sensibilities, such as the recent cartoons misrepresenting and vilifying my ancestor, the Prophet.

Ibrahim Hooper

We have expressed the Muslim community's concerns about a variety of images of the Prophet Mohammed, whether it be in textbooks, editorial cartoons or even in the Supreme Court.

Lynda Barry

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

John Hench

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

Michael Leunig

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.

People who have been to Pakistan know it's people are very friendly, but the shootings and the cartoon incidents may shake investors, including Chinese.

You wouldn't be able to watch the Cartoon Network if you didn't have satellites.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

Frank Miller

It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Dick Ebersol

He told me this incredible story that Walt's first really big production as a cartoonist for the cinema had been a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was before Mickey. And for reasons that aren't still totally clear to me, Walt lost those rights. He didn't have the money to hold onto them.

Once you cartoon for a few years, you can't possibly do anything else. Everything else just feels like work.

It was very easy for that cartoon to be misinterpreted.

Carsten Juste

These cartoons were not in violation of Danish law but have irrefutably offended many Muslims, and for that we apologize.

William Gaddis

. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .

Jennifer Hale

There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

Seth

I've certainly seen a lot of my cartoonist friends embrace 'Little Lulu' in a much deeper way because their kids love it so much. But that's not gonna be happening for me. There are no kids coming.

In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

Jeff Kinney

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

It's our positive reaction to a negative issue. The cartoons deface the character of the prophet and in turn our character. But we feel the violent response is not warranted. It's not the way the prophet would have responded.

Michael Leunig

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

Rebecca Sugar

I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there.

It's big and powerful and friendly, like a cartoon character.

This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should never have been printed, but the Prophet Muhammad said that we should not reciprocate by returning evil for evil. We are to reply to evil only with good.

Julia Gillard

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

Flemming Rose

I commissioned the cartoons in response to several incidents of self-censorship in Europe caused by widening fears and feelings of intimidation in dealing with issues related to Islam.

Roz Chast

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

It was sweet, innocent and nice, I liked the idea of cartoon characters coming to life.

Michael Dyson

It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it even makes it more powerful. Because why? Now it's getting into the unconscious or the subconscious and the minds of our children.