Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
Quotes about cartoonists (16 Quotes)
Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
There's a lot of great cartoonists working, but I don't see too many people coming along who are of the 'where have you been all my life' variety.
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.
The first two months led up to the party page (today), then it will follow the Bumsteads on their anniversary trip to Hawaii, where they'll be gone a month, ... All the different (comics) syndicates are doing crossover story lines where they refer to the anniversary. The whole community of cartoonists. It's really a lot of fun.
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine a novelist giving his literary agent the ownership of his characters and all reprint, television, and movie rights before the agent takes the manuscript to a publisher Obviously, an author would have to be a raving lunatic to agree to such a deal, but virtually every cartoonist does exactly that when a syndicate demands ownership before agreeing to sell the strip to newspapers.
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
Cartoonists tend to be quite lonely, solitary animals and the whole point of the studio when it was founded was offering a team that could do larger pieces of work and larger commissions than a single cartoonist could ever hope to do.
Most cartoonists are failed actors.
At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.