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Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.
It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.
I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.
There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.
I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
I was the founder of the Cartoon Bank in the 90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
Every era has its cartoon rich guys, but most of them are actual cartoons - Daddy Warbucks, Scrooge McDuck, C. Montgomery Burns.
I try to do much of the necessary alteration on the black and white [cartoons] rather than leave it to be done on the paintings.
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
You may think it's weird working with a cartoon band but there are a lot of characters in grime, especially since the early days.
I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
'Sailor Moon' was my favorite cartoon of all time, and I'm still kind of obsessed with it. I own all the DVDs to watch it at home.
I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.
I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.
You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
I grew up with Thundercats and She-Ra: Princess Of Power. That was sort of my take on fantasy: the women after-school cartoon world.
I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.
Doing the voice for something [cartoon] requires an enormous amount of energy and you really have to use your whole body. It's cool.
I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian!
In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.
I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.
One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
Honestly, at one time I though Babe Ruth was a cartoon character. I really did, I mean I wasn't born until 1961 and I grew up in Indiana.
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.'
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.
When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?'
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.
My cartoon strips in college strived to have the Schulzian mix of surrealism and Charlie Brown angst. A bit of that combo shows up in 'Up.'
'SpongeBob' is a cartoon I love. Especially when I'm in bed by myself at home and I have trouble sleeping, my reflex is to put cartoons on.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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 watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.