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
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 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.
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…
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 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'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 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…
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