Mort Walker Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what the things I'm reading about look like.

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.

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.

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.

Much like every artist or every creator, I got into comics as a kid, and the most important thing was the 'bang zoom' of it. As many explosions as possible.

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.

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.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

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

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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.