Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American cartoonist Walt Handelsman.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Walt Handelsman is an editorial cartoonist for The Advocate in New Orleans. His cartoons are syndicated by Tribune Content Agency. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, in 1997 with the Times-Picayune and in 2007 for Newsday.
It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.
We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.
Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.
Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.