I grew up watching Transformers. I think it was one of the first cartoons that I started watching as a kid. It was awesome. I would set my clock every morning before I went to school. It was a big part of my childhood.
There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceived insult against Islam. But I am unaware of a single demonstration of Muslims against Muslim terror directed at non-Muslims.
I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It’s good also to show the world my sweet side with them.
My cartoons haven’t been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I’m more interested in campaigning about the issues.
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
With Saturday morning cartoons, you’ve got to start at 6 A.M., right?
I am quite convinced now… that the actual training of drawing cartoons – which is, of course, my style – led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the ‘Spot’ books.
I grew up on Charles Addams’ cartoons, particularly ‘The Addams Family,’ and Uncle Fester was always one of my favorites.
Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.
I’m a huge fan of Warner Brothers cartoons. I would spend many hours alone after school watching Daffy Duck. I think Daffy Duck is one of the great comedic villains.
As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I’d study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.
At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
My mother had no interest in cartoons. I remember thinking, ‘I am never going to grow into that person.’ Which is so ironic – now I get to work on ‘Family Guy’ and ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Futurama’, all of these great animated series! TV was my passion.
Reading ‘The New Yorker’ – I start on the last page and go backwards, reading all the cartoons. Then I read ‘Shouts and Murmurs.’ Then I read the reviews. Then I read the articles that immediately appeal to me.
If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade… a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they’re easy to absorb.
I wrote my master’s thesis on cartoons!
I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.
‘SpongeBob’ is a cartoon I love. Especially when I’m in bed by myself at home and I have trouble sleeping, my reflex is to put cartoons on.
As a kid, I watched ‘Bugs Bunny’ cartoons, and for some reason Pepe Le Pew, the indomitable French skunk pursuing his would-be kitty paramour, left his mark on me: became an instant emblem of odoriferous hubris, hedonistic bad behavior. He was an entry-level Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a rookie Marquis de Sade.
I didn’t have cable, so YouTube was my cartoons.
I think a lot of the Disney cartoons are scary when you watch them at a young age.
When I was a kid, I wanted to emulate Mel Blanc, who is arguably one of the most legendary voiceover recording artists of our time. I used to watch all the cartoons where he would voice Daffy, Elmer Fudd and Porky the Pig. I knew one day I wanted to do that.
I think the cartoons that they’re children are watching, particularly ‘The Simpsons,’ they’re OK. I think that the adult audience is making much too much of the danger that they imply. That’s not the case. The danger for children today, honey, is the news. Keep them away from news on television.
Drawings don’t have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
I’ve learned to look like I’m listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I’m actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
I don’t like cartoons that take place in Nowhereville. I like cartoons where I know where they’re happening.
My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we’re going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
With a standard editorial cartoon, you’re taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite – a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it’s more storytelling.
I’d been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.
I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That body of work is the one I’m proudest of.
Children’s programming in America, I think it’s pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It’s pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don’t find any of that stimulating for children.
I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist – or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ called ‘The Art of Animation.’ It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn’t considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.
I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs bunny cartoons.
I fancy cartoons; don’t even get me started on ‘Aladdin.’
I don’t think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, ‘Pinocchio’ or ‘Bambi’ or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing ‘The Blue Angel’ and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world – that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.
I had the whole ‘Ghostbusters’ toy set with the firehouse and the car and everything. Sometimes I’d use my grandpa’s camera and make little stop-motion cartoons with those toys – I was definitely a weird kid.
Miss Minutes was inspired a bit by Felix the Cat, and cartoons of that era.
I like cartoons. I like ‘Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends.’ It’s funny! It has things that kids wouldn’t get. It’s like, if you’re mature, you get it. I like that and ‘The Fairly OddParents.’
Just doing voices for cartoons is just a dream come true.
Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he’s a great actor.
I was diagnosed with ADD – see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons – and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.
I used to draw cartoons of my teachers which used to get passed around the class and I’d always wind up getting caught which often meant detention. But they sometimes said the drawings were good!
It’s embarrassing to tell you how much my friends make fun of me. Seriously, when you have a doll made of your face, it’s ridiculous how creative your friends can get… pictures, videos, little animated cartoons that they’ve made.
I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw ‘my people’ portrayed accurately.
One of my favourite Japanese cartoons is ‘Yasuragi no Yakata,’ written by the famous Fujiko Fujio.
We’ve seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.
The biggest idea of a good time for me is making the Batman videos that we did. That is my ideal day. That is exactly what I want to be doing… I like doing cartoons. I like writing things.
