I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
I was fascinated with the writing process and seeing the evolution of a sketch and how it would change up to the minute before it went on the air.
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
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.
Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.