Charles Forsman Quotes

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.

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

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 am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

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.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I did all sorts of cartoons and stuff. And every once in a while I still do. It's rare, but it happens.

Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.

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.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.