Alex Hirsch Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

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.

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

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like 'Popeye' and Disney animation.

I always idealized the mainstream cartoonists and the packed schedule they worked under.

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

I wanted to do what Mel Blanc did, and that was cartoons.

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

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

I do love sparse cartooning.