#cartoonist

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. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#always #back #behind #cartoonist #cartoons

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#before #cartoonist #cartoons #draw #friend

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#also #artists #cartoonists #chances #choices

Most cartoonists are failed actors. ↗

— Milton Caniff

#failed #most

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#cartoonist #family #family guy #guy #high

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent. ↗

— Walt Kelly

#humanist #life

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#cartoonist #finally #heard #i #myself

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #be nice #cartoonist #each #i

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. ↗

— Chris Ware

#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. ↗

— Chris Ware

#i #i think #i write #illustrate #illustrator