Craig McCracken Quotes

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

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.

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.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

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.

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

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

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.

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

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

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.

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

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

I do love sparse cartooning.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.