Words matter. These are the best Ted Rall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Even though I’m a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
I don’t think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
I’m a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
But now that I’m cartooning full-time, I’m more of an observer. I’m talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it’s not like being in the trenches.
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
I’m a better polemicist in prose.
Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Comics are too big. You can’t say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it’s objective is wrong. It’s wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that’s good.
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone’s apartment and they don’t know you, but they’ve taped one of your pieces up.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn’t.
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.
I think we’re the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
Most people don’t know how to tell stories.
