John Kricfalusi Quotes

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

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

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

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.

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

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.

Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked around and it was like, "Wow, I don't really want to study math. I don't really want to study science. I don't really want to study literature. Is there a place where I can go and draw cartoons?"

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

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.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I have a BFA in illustration.

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

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

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 was an arts student. I did graphic design. Being an artist, I did a lot of paintings. I have always had that creative side to me.

I'm an artist. I've been doing storyboards for a long, long time.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

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.

I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.