Jim Davis (cartoonist) Quotes

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Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Jim Davis
I was always drawing. When I was very little my drawing was terrible. I would draw a cow and I would have to write the word "cow" and draw an arrow down to it, so I was labeling everything. But I could make my mom laugh with my drawings.

Jim Davis
I never thought I honestly would make a living out of it. I did cartoons for the high school paper and then the college paper and then when I got out I was working in advertising. I was just a pay-stub artist, a layout artist, but I got to meet Tom Ryan, who does the Tumbleweeds comic strip. He lived in Muncie and I asked him how he got started and he liked my stuff and asked me to be his assistant. This was back in 1969.

Jim Davis
Tom Ryan has always said, "Good art saves bad writing, good writing saves bad art, but it's best to have good writing and good art." So I worked really, really hard on the art. My writing is stronger than my drawing. Writing is easier for me than drawing. But I can't separate them.

Jim Davis
The comic strips from the papers are running online and getting good readership. Garfield has gotten nearly 17 million fans on Facebook. We're in this period right now where there is very little difference, except for the opportunity to monetize the strip online. People expect intellectual properties and content to be free online, so the newspapers are protecting them a little more now.

Jim Davis
I had a bug idea, a bug strip. I submitted a lot of ideas to newspaper syndicates and finally an editor said, "Your scripts are great but bugs? Nobody can relate." So I took a long hard look at the comics and I thought, "Dogs are doing really well. Snoopy, Marmaduke and so on." So if dogs were doing well, I thought maybe people would want to see cats.

Jim Davis