I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.
He always describes his characters’ voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They’re grotesques really.
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.
I’ve never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn’t have any newspapers or magazines to read.
At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.
It’s sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.
I enjoy music and cooking and cartoons and many other things.
Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don’t know how to draw.
There’s been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Fester never talked in the ‘Addams Family’ cartoons. So I raised my voice an octave and I gave him a beetling look.
For a gut punch of nostalgia, consider that Saturday morning cartoons are now largely a thing of the past.
If the creators of cartoons are intentionally or unintentionally giving children the idea that gay people are part of the big, happy human family, that’s a good thing, not a bad one.
I’ve been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.
There are as many great superhero movies as there are comedies and dramas and cartoons. People just want to see good movies.
I didn’t read comic books; that’s not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their kids.
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
We’ve seen violent responses to ‘Satanic Verses.’ We’ve seen violent responses to the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in an evil way.
I don’t watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.
I was literally in the car every day on my way home from school trying to hurry up and get the homework done so I could just go home and watch the cartoons and not be bothered.
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.
Sometimes I fantasize about becoming a cartoon and only making music for cartoons. I can easily visualize my future in music when I go into that fantasy in my head.
I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.
So many cartoons are about real fun, happy-go-lucky simpletons.
When we grew up, we had three channels on television and only one day of cartoons and if you missed it, you missed it.
There are no cartoons about happy marriages.
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
For an encore, I might do health-care cartoons using my own blood. That will be my last act.
I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were ‘The Death of Manolete’ and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I’d look with slanted eyelids.
I didn’t want to go to college – I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they’d let me quit high school.
People think that cartoons are meant to be watched on television and not in cinemas. To get people into cinemas to see animation really boils down to storytelling for the family.
My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they’re hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.
I wanted to do what Mel Blanc did, and that was cartoons.
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn’t much like it.
I don’t really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch ‘Adventure Time’, ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’, and ‘Looney Tunes’ and old classic cartoons.
Even if I am just sleeping with her or just watching cartoons in bed, I know Violet values that. I try to make the most of every moment and just make it special with her, because its what matters to me most.
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
I don’t let Molly watch much television. The only stations I let her watch are PBS and the Disney Channel. The cartoons on the other stations are too violent and filled with obnoxious commercials.
I notice when I’m at a party where I don’t know anybody – even if I have nothing in common with somebody – we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
Cable television stations in America are now producing such smart, in-depth, non-formula, character-based dramas. Film has turned more and more into big action or cartoons.
Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists in Denmark drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world – demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence.
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
I enjoyed doing the ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoons, and if we had never done anything else, I would have been perfectly satisfied.
I consider myself a humanist. Even if I do very dark worlds, I try to make those characters real humans as opposed to just cartoons.
I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from ‘The Lion King’ – and it’s a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
Cartoons make kids happy, and that’s a great feeling.
Aren’t we all ‘Star Trek’ fans? That’s the show that captured our imaginations after cartoons and everything!
I had always loved cartoons, especially ‘Bugs Bunny,’ and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.
I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I’mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I’m still gonna see a check.
Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.
I’m not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young ‘un, and also my cartoons were not like typical ‘New Yorker’ cartoons.
As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of ‘Ed, Edd, n Eddy’ when I was a kid.
The thing I loved about the cartoons I grew up with is, to this day, I’m still just starting to get certain references from Bugs Bunny cartoons. I’ll see some film noir movie and go, ‘Wait, that’s what Bugs Bunny was quoting!’ I like the idea we made the unfolding fortune cookie for ten years from now.
If you were to look at an old ‘Betty Boop’ cartoon or an ‘Out of the Ink Well’ animation, there are many things about ‘Adventure Time’ that really remind you of that, even though it doesn’t look like any of those cartoons.
There was a lot about the military that I thought was pretty silly, but these cartoons weren’t meant to take a poke at anybody or anything. They were meant to make people laugh.
In every sport you have to have a Plan B. For me, Plan B is already set. It’s to do everything from voice-overs for cartoons to action and adventure movies, not only in the United States but here in Japan.
True net-heads sometimes resort to punctuation cartoons to get around the absence of inflection.
