Comic Strips Quotes

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

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.

In a perfect world, I'd like to start running comics for kids - by kids.

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.

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

I was never a comic-book fan, but I loved cartoons. I don't enjoy reading: for me, it's hard work.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

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

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

Don’t speak to the … converted. Don’t talk to a bunch of [fools] who agree with you. That’s not doing anything. Get your message out to people who would not ordinarily hear anything conscious. It’s not easy, but we have to be in the business of mainstreaming radicalism.

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.

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

I'm a Batman fan from Day 1. My daughter's favorite is Wonder Woman, and my son loves The Flash, Cyborg, and Superman.

Hanging out with comics, all they did was make fun of me.

As a kid, I was obsessed with 'Calvin and Hobbes' and 'Bone,' and I'm certain that I've unconsciously ripped off ideas from both, wholesale.

The reason why my strip is important is not what I say, it’s that I say it in The Washington Post. It’s the channels of distribution that make it important. There’s a million people writing [stuff] in their basement. Great, but the relevance [of my work] is that everyone is reading it.

I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.

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

I was not a big comic-book reader.

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