American - Cartoonist | September 9, 1964 -
Sometimes I'll be reading something online and just get so frustrated because of what people are saying.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
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I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.
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Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.
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When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.
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It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
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I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.
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One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.
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I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
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In Los Angeles, it's always nice out. In New York, it can be nice out or horrifying. You really have no idea what you're going to get on any given day.
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In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.
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