I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

You can't undo a deportation.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

I'm not up on today's television for children, because it's mostly cartoons that don't seem to interest me.

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read.

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.

I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.

In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.