Natsuki Takaya Quotes

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

I was the typical little sister who wanted to be just like her older brother. When I was growing up, my brother wrote phenomenal stories, so I wanted to write them, too.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

My first influences were superhero artists.

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.