Quotes from Walt Handelsman

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.

I don't think you can beat your audience over the head with hard-hitting cartoons day after day after day.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

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 work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

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.

It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

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.

Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.

Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

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.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.