Cartoonist Quotes

I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.

I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.

I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

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.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

I stop short of being a workaholic.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.

Cats rule the world.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.