If you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist.
I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoo...
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
One of the perks of being a 'New Yorker' cartoonist is that you get to hang around with interesting people. My fellow cartoonists are all interesting, and all highly creative.
It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the tim...
There are two ways to look at my publishing career. One is that I'm a novelist churning out books, who is eight into a series; the other way is that I'm a cartoonist, just starting out. Most cartoonists have long careers: Charles Schulz drew Peanuts ...
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
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.
The glass is completely full...of shit.
Peace ain't worth fighting for.
There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV.
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
That's art. Nothing is for everybody.
I forgot what I was going to think.
If the mind fits, shrink it.
Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.
Every swamp has a silted lining.
Wait now or wait, wait later.
A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.
Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.
All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.
