Ted Rall
Ted Rall
Frederick Theodore "Ted" Rall IIIis an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth26 August 1963
CountryUnited States of America
It's funny, because politically Spiegelman and I don't come from that different a place, but I view his approach as being intellectually dishonest.
I used to wake up every day and think of some way he'd slighted me. Now that I've sent this thing out into the world I hardly ever think about my Dad.
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.
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
I'm a better polemicist in prose.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.