I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seeing how much you can step over it, and I mean, I do that in my personal life, too. I try to anger and piss people off a little bit to try to see what I can get away with. I got in trouble with more than one cartoon.
All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony. - Barry Blitt
All my drawings always sort of looked funny even if I was trying to do serious stuff and express myself about grim situations. It was always cartoony.
- Barry Blitt
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I think there's probably mo… - Barry Blitt
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I think there's probably mo…
If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that. - Barry Blitt
If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you're really saying what you need to say in that.
I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like it was over for him at the beginning of the prim… - Barry Blitt
I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like it was over for him at the beginning of the prim…
I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question. - Barry Blitt
I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.
I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that h… - Barry Blitt
I don't know what I was thinking when I was starting out. I was hoping I'd get paid to draw realistic pictures of hockey players. I still hold that h…
I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seei… - Barry Blitt
I don't really know what makes someone want to be a cartoonist, but part of it is trying to get in trouble. You're looking where the line is and seei…
I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly at it, producing more w… - Barry Blitt
I'm, like, not overly into labels. I've been referred to that way, but I tend to think of political cartoonists as constantly at it, producing more w…
I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself. - Barry Blitt
I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.
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