Cartoonist Quote by Akira Toriyama

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,

— Nelson DeMille

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an…

— Lynda Barry

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign…

— Walt Disney

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

— Kameron Hurley

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

— Gary Larson

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I…

— Michael Redhill

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough…

— Poppy Z. Brite

I don't think I would've ever dared dreaming of becoming a professional cartoonist. I wouldn't set myself up for that disappointment.

— David Rees

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…

— Ted Rall

Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.

— Michael Leunig

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for…

— Julie Doucet