Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

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

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

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.

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

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

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

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

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.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

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.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

I've always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

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.

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.

For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics.