Ralph Bakshi Quotes

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

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.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

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.

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

I'm a self trained, autodidactic artist, so all I was ever trying to do was to draw as realistically as possible - but that's what comes out, because I don't really know how to draw! I think when I draw characters, I'm able to reduce them down to little marks that capture the most distinct elements of them.

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.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.

I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

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

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.

My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

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.

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.

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

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

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.