As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.
I used to think of the cartoons as a magazine within a magazine. First you go through and read all the cartoons, and then you go back and read the articles.
Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.
I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the time.
It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.
Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.
I've never stopped loving cartoons. I loved cartoons as a kid. I can still look at them and enjoy them.
The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.