Top 25 Ted Rall Quotes

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I’m doing a parody.

The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

I think jazz is good, but I don’t enjoy it. It’s not for me.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it’s as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it’s not that great.

Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

I’m a better polemicist in prose.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn’t.

Most people don’t know how to tell stories.

Comics are too big. You can’t say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it’s objective is wrong. It’s wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that’s good.

But now that I’m cartooning full-time, I’m more of an observer. I’m talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it’s not like being in the trenches.

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

I’m a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don’t think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

I don’t think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone’s apartment and they don’t know you, but they’ve taped one of your pieces up.

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.

Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

It’s a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.