Jim Toomey Quotes

In the high level cartoon world, my number one admired hero would be Chas Addams - really a top, top artist that the 'New Yorker' was lucky to find and employ.

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

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.

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

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.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

Beetle Bailey is actually me, in uniform. I've got about 20 characters, and they're all after friends of mine.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

I don't consider myself a cartoonist, because to me a cartoonist has a lot of technical ability to draw and such. However, I do consider myself to have a bit of a cartoonist character. I definitely am analyzing and satirizing pop culture and politics and whatever strikes my fancy.

Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

Among politicians, I would say Sonia Gandhi is not exactly a cartoonist's delight.

I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters, and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.

Cincinnati at that time was also beginning to realize it had major cartooning talent in Jim Borgman, at the city's other paper, and I didn't benefit from the comparison.His footsteps seemed like good ones to follow, so I cultivated an interest in politics, and Borgman helped me a lot in learning how to construct an editorial cartoon. Neither of us dreamed I'd end up in the same town on the opposite paper.