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

— Butch Hartman

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“Timmy’s a ten year old all-American boy who just so happens to wear a pink baseball cap. He’s the star of our show. The nucleus. The center. Without him, the Godparents wouldn’t be here and we wouldn’t have any fun now, would we?”

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7 Questions for Butch Hartman, Cartoon Superstar May 15th 2016 medium.com (When Fred Seibert asked him the difference between drawing and writing.)

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"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.”

“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.”

“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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