138 Quotes by Jeff Smith

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.