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I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.

— Jim Toomey

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✓Similar Perspectives

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 one of your pieces up.

— Ted Rall

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.

— Jonathan Winters

I wanted to be a cartoonist. I was one of those kids who sat around and drew in my room all the time.

— Michael Stuhlbarg

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.

— Edward Ruscha

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

— Matt Groening

When I was starting out in 1988, I was doing cartoons on President George H. W. Bush, Iraq and the fall of Soviet Union.

— Steve Breen

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

— Robert Mankoff

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Lynda Barry

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

— Robert Rodriguez