Becoming Quote by David Rees

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

— Michael Leunig

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

— Robert Crumb

Nobody could be a professional cartoonist, because you have to do something you don't like to do in order to be a responsible adult…

— David Rees

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

— Charles M. Schulz

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I'd rather be a cartoonist. I don't want to be a publisher.

— Charles Forsman

I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I…

— Adrian Tomine

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

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

— John Lasseter

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

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

— Gary Larson

When I graduated, I sort of went from school to being a cartoonist, and I couldn't draw.

— Ryan North