#cartoon

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive. ↗

— Chris Ware

#alive #basically #cartoonists #closer #consider

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. ↗

— Chris Ware

#i #i think #i write #illustrate #illustrator

My wife has joked that if anything ever happened to me, she'd gladly live out her life without anyone else around. I think it bugs her I'm home all the time; such is the life cycle of the cartoonist, however. ↗

— Chris Ware

#anything #around #bugs #cartoonist #cycle

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. ↗

— Chris Ware

#bad #blames #cartoon #might #painting

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done. ↗

— Chris Ware

#been #being #being done #believe #better

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies. ↗

— Joel Hodgson

#cecil #first #i #i remember #i think

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#cartoon #constantly #continuous #fabric #miracles

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#envelope #exaggeration #honorable #me #pushing

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#cartoonist #famous #felt #get #i

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it. ↗

— Gary Larson

#almost #cartooning #fit #good #i