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Garry Trudeau Quotes

American - Cartoonist | July 21, 1948 -

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

Table Off Far Concerned Subject

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

Good Perspective Canvas Little Just

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Culture Over Force Dominant Comics

Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

Ideas Vegetables Hard Head Up Pop

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Happy Feel Enough Guilty Create

I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.

Work Me Up Profile Found Public

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

Nothing Humour Worse Than

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Job Control You Personal Satire

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

School High School Kid High Because

I'm never happier than when I'm not working. The strip is a job - that's why I take money for it. It's a job I'm passionate about, but it's a job I totally leave in the studio when I walk out of here, unless I'm late and I have to work at home. I never think of the strip unless I'm compelled to.

Work Home Money Walk Job Think

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

Life Yourself People Saying Think

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

Character Time Day Together Moving

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