Quotes about american-cartoonist
american-cartoonist art believe form necessary
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form. Paul Conrad
american-cartoonist buy letter negative parent response
Usually when I get a letter from a parent it's because they buy my stuff. I don't really get a whole lot of negative response in general. Jhonen Vasquez
american-cartoonist build design dream people requires wonderful
You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. Walt Disney
american-cartoonist few pitches
You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught. Joseph Barbera
american-cartoonist good great literature prose standard whether
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great. Ted Rall
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Johnny was the very first book I did.
american-cartoonist fantasize kids
Yeah, I think some of that is just wish-fulfillment, you know, how little kids fantasize through their drawings. I wanted to be powerful. Alison Bechdel
american-cartoonist book characters telling
Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.
american-cartoonist national state tournament weekend
I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business. Mike Peters
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It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I remember a time if you'd signed to a major label it was such a sell out! But now... unless you've signed to a big label, you're a failure now.
american-cartoonist business good
Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
american-cartoonist basket chasing hope mouse point stop
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
american-cartoonist characters far full himself joke laughing series
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
american-cartoonist base family interested powers
That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes. Brad Bird
american-cartoonist both centrist definitely parties
I'm definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.
american-cartoonist assume direction guarantee might surest time turn win
Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
american-cartoonist contact elsewhere exists life none sign surest
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
american-cartoonist bad
We are set to make very bad history. Tom Wilson
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These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.
american-cartoonist happiness
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.
american-cartoonist potholes road
Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
american-cartoonist future spending worrying
There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
american-cartoonist living nobody
Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.
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Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!
american-cartoonist experience
If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.
american-cartoonist answer found job opportunity
When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
american-cartoonist cathy
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married. Cathy Guisewite
american-cartoonist cathy disgusted point saw side suddenly thoroughly
When Irving got Vivian it was at a point when CATHY was thoroughly disgusted with him and then suddenly saw this other side of him.
american-cartoonist problem
That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
american-cartoonist bit liked wife
I was married, my wife was pregnant, and I just wanted to get out of the laboring bit and try to become an artist. I liked that all my life.
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If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say 'No! I don't want it right now,' that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry
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So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.
american-cartoonist eventually fighting grew karate studied
When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.