#cartoons

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#bible #cartoons #doing #first #i

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me. ↗

— Bil Keane

#bill #cartoons #drawing #i #knocked

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration. ↗

— Bil Keane

#circus #family #i #inspiration #our

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart. ↗

— Bil Keane

#cartoons #eye #go #heart #i

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#cartoons #found #how #i #industry

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#beings #cartoons #everybody #human #human beings

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them. ↗

— Mort Walker

#cartoons #comics #down #emptied #full

I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons. ↗

— Bruce McCall

#because #cartoons #great #i

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying. ↗

— David Remnick

#first #get #lying #magazine #other

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#cartoons #deeper #dust #exist #grunge