Robert Mankoff Quotes

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

Some of my favorite media is the still cartoon that you can sit and study. You can get amazing metaphors across really quickly. I'm in awe of a Charles Schulz.

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

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.

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.

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

I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

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

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

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.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

My first influences were superhero artists.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

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

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

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

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

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

None of the established museums were treating cartoons seriously. It was considered a lesser art or no art at all, just a way to sell newspapers. Even the syndicates who were dedicated to the cartoons were throwing them out, figuring they had no value after they were printed.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I do love sparse cartooning.