Paul Conrad

"You should always determine first what you want to say. It's a bad situation for a cartoonist to think of his pictures first...A cartoonist should get out of bed mad and stay mad. The cartoonist's fun…"

"I decide who's right and who's wrong, and go from there. But I can't just comment on an issue. I've got to take an editorial position. Too many cartoonists simply illustrate the news. Well, the reader…"

"Editorial cartoonists are idealists, of another world. Political, social and moral injustices are perceived as monstrosities sweep aside all the complexities and go to the basic issue; to take suspici…"

"Nobody ever accused me of being objective."

"Cartoons are ridicule and satire by definition. A negative attitude is the nature of the art."

"I wake up angry every morning and start reading. Then I'm furious."

"I don't see a great deal in editorial cartooning today, and neither do the editors. Damn few of them want cartoons that say something that should be said, politically, that is. As long as that continu…"

"Throughout our history - and that of the world - it's always come down to the friction between the haves and have-nots or between the average Joes and the large corporations. So that's a recurring the…"