I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.

- Adrian Tomine

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.

- Adrian Tomine

James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.

- Bruce Eric Kaplan

If I were wearing jeans, I'd be wearing the uniform of a cartoonist.

- Don Wright

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

- Frank Miller

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

- Gene Luen Yang

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

- Jean-Michel Basquiat

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

- Jeff MacNelly

If you're a balanced cartoonist, you're not a cartoonist. You definitely have to have a bias.

- Jeff MacNelly

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.

- Liza Donnelly

In my journey as a cartoonist, I seem to have accidentally stumbled into all sorts of traps, damnations and blacklists.

- Michael Leunig

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

- Mark Hamill

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

- Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

- Robert Mankoff

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

- Ted Rall