Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.
I love classic animation, and I especially love classic cartoon music.
So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.
I’m often asked where my nickname ‘Kun’ comes from. My parents says it was a Japanese cartoon I used to watch on television when I was very young, set in the Stone Age, where the main character was a boy called Kum Kum, the little caveman.
When people see me in public, they’re usually like, ‘Whoa, you’re a real person.’ It’s as if they’re seeing Pinocchio or a cartoon character come to life.
I enjoyed a cartoon show called ‘Recess’ throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball – you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
When you get into statistical analysis, you don’t really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by ‘The Onion’ – or be the subject of a cartoon in ‘The New Yorker.’ I guess I’m kind of an outlier there.
Kids cannot follow stories. They don’t know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
Home gigs can be hard because it’s an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I’m doing this job which is not quite acting – part of it is me, part performance. You’re presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.
I had a great movement teacher – he showed me how to walk so I wasn’t becoming like a cartoon.
Weird, but sometimes I feel more like my cartoon character than I do Lizzie because she’s a little more edgy and snappy.
I was the founder of the ‘Cartoon Bank’ in the ’90s. I was interested in finding ways for cartoonists to supplement their incomes.
How Hungama became the top children’s channel in India is interesting because we were up against, not just Disney, but also Time Warner’s Cartoon Network. It was an illustration of the fact that for any company that wants to grow in emerging markets, localizing content is the key.
I’m not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.
They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish – they’re the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out.
The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on ‘The Simpsons’ and ‘Futurama’ is ‘How do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?’ Not every surprise is good, but you want to continue jolting people.
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.
I see our veterans as American heroes, not as cartoon characters.
I first sold a cartoon for five dollars. I was in the fifth grade.
It’s a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
I play a lot of video games. I’ve started playing even more games since I heard Cartoon Network was interested in making an ‘Adventure Time’ game.
When you make the decision to call somebody out of the blue and say you want to talk to them about the worst thing that has happened to you, and I’m going to turn it into a cartoon… you’re bound to ruffle some feathers or turn people off.
As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often. What I love about ‘You’re the Worst’ is that no female character is portrayed as a black-and-white cartoon character. We’re all complicated, messy human beings.
I actually grew up watching a lot of these cartoons – a lot of the animated series. ‘Batman: The Animated Series,’ ‘Justice League,’ all the stuff that would come onto Cartoon Network.
I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they’re actually there.
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
We’re delighted that Freddie Flintstone and his friends have made such a hit. The comedy is not the old cartoon slapstick. Most of it is situation stuff and dialogue.
I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.
I thought about ‘Johnny Quest’ and how I loved that cartoon and what a cool name he has. I tried to come up with other names and thought ‘Johnny Phantom’ would be cool, a superpowered kid who was a ghostbuster.
I couldn’t believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.
I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.
It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.
I saw one of the old ‘Tom and Jerry’ cartoons the other day. I hadn’t seen it for 30 years and I didn’t remember it. We made 160 of them! I thought it was a very funny cartoon.
Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
I’ve been a comics fan since my first hit of those gateway drawings: Judy, Asterix, and the TV cartoon ‘Spider-Man and his Amazing Friend’ – which naturally led me to Spider-Man comics.
To be honest, there is a special gift for doing voice-overs, and the people who did the voices in the ‘SpongeBob’ cast are excellent at cartoon voice-overs, and they bring something extra to the reads.
