Quotes by Ted Rall

About Ted Rall:

Frederick Theodore "Ted" Rall III is an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009.
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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.

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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

Ted Rall

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

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Most people don't know how to tell stories.

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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

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I'm a better polemicist in prose.

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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

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Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

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Author Bio

  • NameTed Rall
  • DescriptionAmerican cartoonist
  • BornAugust 26, 1963
  • ProfessionCaricaturist