Garry Trudeau Quotes

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 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.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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

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

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

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

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.

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and 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.

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

There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for 50 years.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

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

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.

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.

Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.