Academic Quote by Bill Watterson

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart…

— Ralph Bakshi

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it…

— Chris Ware

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become…

— Marjane Satrapi

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint…

— Ralph Bakshi

The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons…

— Chris Ware

Cartooning is completely different from other media: it is closely related to film and prose, other narrative forms, but the skills needed to realize…

— Jessica Abel

Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced…

— Bill Watterson

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the…

— Kate Beaton

Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always recognized. But…

— Jim Woodring

“The rhetorical function of such depictions is, in any case, pretty obvious. If cartoons provide us with examples of a visual mode of insult,…

— Thomas Conley

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

— Bill Watterson

I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic…

— Raymond Pettibon