Words matter. These are the best Comic Strip Quotes from famous people such as Matt Groening, Cathy Guisewite, Stephan Pastis, Jim Davis, Mort Walker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.
Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it’s a work of genius. It’s very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don’t expect in a silly-looking comic strip.
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don’t know what they think.
Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.
I wasn’t intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn’t aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman’s voice quite like this in the newspaper.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
For a long time, I was under the impression that ‘Terry and the Pirates’ was the best comic strip in the United States.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.
I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.
I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the ‘Comic Strip,’ there was the ‘Vindaloo’ song for the 1998 World Cup, then it was playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in the BBC’s ‘Robin Hood.’
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it’s about real life. I feel like I’m using a part of my brain that’s been dormant until now.
Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don’t know what they think.
To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
The surprising thing was, it’s actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
My problems with ‘Bonanza’ were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.
‘Jingle Belle’ spins out of my love for just sitting down and reading a good, fun Sunday morning comic strip panel.
I’ve always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.
Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, ‘Life in Hell,’ for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’ for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.
For a long time, I was under the impression that ‘Terry and the Pirates’ was the best comic strip in the United States.
Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today’s masterpiece is tomorrow’s birdcage lining.
In America, there’s a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like ‘Ek Doctor Ki Maut.’ It’s like reading Chekov and then going on to a comic strip.
Well, I’m always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it’s about real life. I feel like I’m using a part of my brain that’s been dormant until now.
I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the ‘Comic Strip,’ there was the ‘Vindaloo’ song for the 1998 World Cup, then it was playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in the BBC’s ‘Robin Hood.’
A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it’s an heirloom, and it’s also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.
Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.
‘Jingle Belle’ spins out of my love for just sitting down and reading a good, fun Sunday morning comic strip panel.
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well.
I was in a position where I was going to wait for the ‘Inbetweeners’ film to come out before I decided what I was going to do next, but as soon I was asked to be involved with ‘Comic Strip’, I was incredibly flattered and jumped at it.
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well.
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
We’re having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
My problems with ‘Bonanza’ were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.
