In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.
I really wanted to be a cartoonist, and I was in 4th or 5th grade and I would bring my drawings in, and I'd look around, and everyone could draw better than me. Everyone. My drawings were just awful. So that's why I had to write.
Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.