I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the…

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I wanted to do what Mel Blanc did, and that was cartoons.

— Russi Taylor

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

— Bil Keane

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers…

— Bill Watterson

Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering.…

— Bill Watterson

I wasn't having any luck getting accepted anyway and it forced me to re-examine what it was that I really wanted to do. In…

— Bill Watterson

Religion and political cartoons, as you may have heard, make a difficult couple, ever since that day of 2005, when a bunch of cartoonists…

— Patrick Chappatte

To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that…

— Tom Tomorrow

I did 32 years of political cartoons, one every day for six days a week, I wrote and drew every word, every line. That…

— Jerry Robinson

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows.…

— Berkeley Breathed

The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when…

— Camille Henrot

In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to…

— Camille Henrot

I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to…

— Karl Lagerfeld

Political cartoons are the ass-end of the artform

— Ivan Brunetti

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a…

— Jeff Kinney