There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested…

I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications -…

— Bill Watterson

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of…

— Craig Thompson

I did freelance cartooning off and on from college graduation in 1991 through ABC News hiring me in 2003. I did a weekly comic…

— Jake Tapper

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it.…

— Gary Larson

Cartooning will destroy you; it will break your heart.

— Charles M. Schulz

Fortunately, cartooning is not a job. It's something like eating or sleeping.

— Sergio Aragones

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a…

— Ralph Bakshi

I have a personal definition of cartooning, which is, simply, "imaginative drawing." Anything you're drawing that is not in front of you but is…

— Jim Woodring

“And to celebrate I will create a series of masterpieces showing how wrong-headed and primitive you and your ideologies are, and it is this…

— Anonymous

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

— Hugh Hefner

I haven't really lost faith in my work - other than for quite short periods when the work is harder than usual - but…

— Jessica Abel

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

— Matt Groening

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

— Matt Groening

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