I've never met a cartoonist who isn't quirky or weird in some ways.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.
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.
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.
At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.
I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.
I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.
A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.
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.
Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.
Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.
I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.
For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.
The thing that I came to realize was that Schulz is the great unifier. Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on.
