Book Quote by Greg Weisman

I started out being a cartoonist at school, but I went to CalArts to study.

— Butch Hartman

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

— Michael Leunig

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books…

— Len Wein

I never graduated, but I was kind of floating between journalism and art, because neither one wanted to claim me, as a cartoonist.

— Jeff Smith

In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern…

— John Musker

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose…

— Arvind Ethan David

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by…

— Robert Rodriguez

I did everything in my power not to be an actress. I went off and did a teacher-training course first, so I could teach…

— Sarah Douglas

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural…

— Elizabeth Hand

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.

— Michael J. Fox