#cartoonist

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent. ↗

— Walt Kelly

#humanist #life

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#cartoonist #finally #heard #i #myself

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#attention #cartoonist #college #course #did

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #be nice #cartoonist #each #i

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

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

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#book #cartoonists #comic #comic book #get

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#humor #inspirational #humor