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“People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re a cartoonist. I thought computers did all that now. I say ‘right, like we just press a button and Pinocchio happens.”

— Butch Hartman

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More quotes by Butch Hartman

“Drawing is telling a story with pictures. Writing is telling a story with words.”

"If you guys can't do it yourselves, you shouldn't criticise anybody else. You shouldn't do it. Now another cartoonist wants to have a problem with me, that's a different story."

“I don’t care how talented you are: be nice to the people you work with. The person you’re rude to today could be your boss tomorrow”.

“My real name is Elmer. I looked it up. It’s a German name. It means “please make fun of me my entire life.”

“Whenever you put yourself out there to do anything, there’s always someone who’s going to, like, try and bring you down ‘cause they’ve never done anything on their own. And so if someone doesn’t do anything and they want to like, you know, criticize, I have no time for them.”

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