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Comic Strip Quotes

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy Picture Quote #1

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper Picture Quote #1

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married Picture Quote #1

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life Picture Quote #1

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies Picture Quote #1

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer Picture Quote #1

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A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don’t know what they think Picture Quote #1

Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip Picture Quote #1

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery Picture Quote #1

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations Picture Quote #1

For a long time, I was under the impression that ‘Terry and the Pirates’ was the best comic strip in the United States Picture Quote #1

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The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity Picture Quote #1

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space Picture Quote #1

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me Picture Quote #1

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done Picture Quote #1

I wasn’t intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn’t aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman’s voice quite like this in the newspaper Picture Quote #1

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour Picture Quote #1

Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it’s a work of genius. It’s very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don’t expect in a silly-looking comic strip Picture Quote #1

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way Picture Quote #1

In America, there’s a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in Picture Quote #1

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you’ve got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue Picture Quote #1

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well Picture Quote #1

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I’m not good at narrative; I’m really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky Picture Quote #1

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece Picture Quote #1

In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers Picture Quote #1

If you’re going to draw a comic strip every day, you’re going to have to draw on every experience in your life Picture Quote #1

The comic strip is what I looked at, and it’s another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me Picture Quote #1

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it’s very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation Picture Quote #1

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Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. (Comic Strip Quotes) You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper (Comic Strip Quotes) I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married (Comic Strip Quotes) I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life (Comic Strip Quotes) I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies (Comic Strip Quotes) The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer (Comic Strip Quotes) I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, ‘Life in Hell,’ for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing ‘The Tracey Ullman Show’ for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show (Comic Strip Quotes) A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don’t know what they think (Comic Strip Quotes) Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. (Comic Strip Quotes) To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery (Comic Strip Quotes) Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations. (Comic Strip Quotes) For a long time, I was under the impression that ‘Terry and the Pirates’ was the best comic strip in the United States. (Comic Strip Quotes) The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity. (Comic Strip Quotes) You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space. (Comic Strip Quotes) I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me. (Comic Strip Quotes) A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done. (Comic Strip Quotes) I wasn’t intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn’t aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman’s voice quite like this in the newspaper. (Comic Strip Quotes) Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield. (Comic Strip Quotes) Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour. (Comic Strip Quotes) Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it’s a work of genius. It’s very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don’t expect in a silly-looking comic strip. (Comic Strip Quotes) When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. (Comic Strip Quotes) In America, there’s a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. (Comic Strip Quotes) Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you’ve got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. (Comic Strip Quotes) It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well. (Comic Strip Quotes) I’m not good at narrative; I’m really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky. (Comic Strip Quotes) I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece. (Comic Strip Quotes) In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers. (Comic Strip Quotes) If you’re going to draw a comic strip every day, you’re going to have to draw on every experience in your life. (Comic Strip Quotes) The comic strip is what I looked at, and it’s another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me. (Comic Strip Quotes) In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it’s very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation. (Comic Strip Quotes)

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