Each cartoon needs the right amount of wrong.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
Tell me that you don't like cartoons, and I think there's something wrong with you. I don't understand why people don't like cartoons.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.