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I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.
I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.
There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.
I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.
Thank you for calling customer service. If you're calm and rational, press 1. If you're a whiner, press 2. If you're a hot head, press 3
Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!
If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet.
Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'
My first month in syndication, I made about $100. I thought it would be exciting if I ever got up to the level where I could pay my rent.
If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.
Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.
I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.
The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.
I'm very fond of the strictly visual cartoons I did when I was breaking in in the 1970's. Over time I migrated to a more verbal approach.
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.
See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo." "He says he's not your sweet babboo." "What does he know?
I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.
Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
I guess we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.
I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
It is difficult to imagine any time in history when so many people claiming to be so free have lived in so much fear of being unattractive.
Of all the wonderful things that men and women share, shoes, tragically, are not one of them. This is because men lack the shoe chromosome.
I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.
You sit around watching all this stuff happen on TV. . . and the TV sits and watches us do nothing! The TV must think we're all pretty lame.
I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.