Alexandria Quote by Jim Toomey

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

I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did…

— Jake Tapper

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

— Butch Hartman

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 take inspirations from newspaper strip cartoonists who look for ways of expanding their characters' worlds once they have established the initial concept of…

— Paul Dini

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

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 answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw,…

— Dan Povenmire

I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail.

— Humphrey Lyttelton

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art…

— Jonathan Winters

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was…

— Lynda Barry

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