I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.
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.
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.
I became a cartoonist because I'd sort of failed at everything else, really. I mean, it was by default.
I feel lucky I didn't become that newspaper cartoonist I wanted to be because in the U.S. so many newspapers have suffered circulation declines, and some have folded. What's fun about being an author is I reach a much bigger audience, and there is something special about launching a book you've penned.
My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.
I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.
I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.
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