Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.

- Walt Handelsman

Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

- Walt Handelsman

I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

- Walt Handelsman

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

- Walt Handelsman

I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

- Walt Handelsman

It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

- Walt Handelsman

Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

- Walt Handelsman

People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

- Walt Handelsman

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

- Walt Handelsman

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

- Walt Handelsman

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

- Walt Handelsman

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

- Walt Handelsman

Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

- Walt Handelsman

I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

- Walt Handelsman

It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

- Walt Handelsman

With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.

- Walt Handelsman