My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.
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Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.
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