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.
Since the beginning of the 20th century, the public's relationship to art has been weakened by a profound institutional reluctance to address the question of what art is for. This is a question that has, quite unfairly, come to feel impatient, illegitimate, and a little impudent.
When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.
With this mistake I deprived myself of the possibility to make a contribution to the treasury of chess art.
I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.
The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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