Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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!

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

Animated editorial cartoons are completely different from static editorial cartoons.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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

Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman

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