Charles Forsman Quotes

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

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.

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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.

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

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

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.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

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

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.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

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

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

Cartooning really is just designing.

When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of the past, like Cliff Sterrett, who did "Polly and Her Pals," or Winsor McCay who did "A Little Nemo in Slumberland," and Herriman - and I just looked through these guys and looked for somebody to steal. You know, looked for who I could swipe, or turn into - who's work I will turn into my work. And I still use, after all these years, these artists as inspirations. So, here in my eighties, I go back to when I was eight for my inspiration.

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.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

My first influences were superhero artists.

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.