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Although I'm certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I'm fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering.…

— Bill Watterson

We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had…

— Elayne Boosler

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

“What I’ve noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed…

— Matt Groening

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just…

— David Byrne

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication…

— Will Eisner

Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.

— Chris Ware

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and…

— Don Rickles

There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves onto the…

— Charles Forsman

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

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is…

— Umberto Eco

“[Editorial cartooning] is essentially a destructive art. We are not pontificators, or molders of thought—or at least we shouldn't try to be. Ours is…

— Bill Mauldin