I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Scarfe worked as a conceptual character artist designing almost all of the characters and then supervising the 900 Disney artists charged with adapting his designs for the film. Scarfe's collaboration with Waters was marked in 2008 by the release of a signed limited-edition eight-print series "Scarfe on the Wall" which contained a monograph book with an extended new interview with Scarfe and was signed by Roger Waters. The writer Howard Jacobson denied it was anti-semitic.

He is married to Jane AGerald Scarfer whom he met in 1971 and married in 1981. They had a daughter in 1974 and two sons in 1982 and 1984. Gerald Anthony Scarfe CBE RDI (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator.