Pete Hamill Quotes

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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.

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

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

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

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

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

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.

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.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

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

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.

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

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

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

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.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

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

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

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 wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.