The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.
Interpretation
The cartoon form uniquely blends visual and textual elements, enhancing communication beyond each component alone.
This quote by Roz Chast highlights the unique nature of cartoons as a medium that integrates both words and images. It emphasizes how the combination of these two elements can create a richer and more impactful experience for the audience, suggesting that together they can convey meaning in ways that neither could achieve independently.
In practice
In a presentation about animation, I used this quote to illustrate the power of combining different mediums.
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
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