When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.
I'm using my art to comment on what I see. You don't have to agree with it.
I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.
In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
When you look at Banksy's work as a catalogue of ideas, it's undeniably brilliant. Going back to my days doing stencil work back in the 80s I knew that it wasn't exactly the most demanding work: it's like printing, but then Warhol was a printer.
Every photograph is the photographer's opinion about something. It's how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.
Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'
Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.
