Steve Breen Quotes
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No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.
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Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
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Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!
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As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
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Big stories have lots of angles, and you have to decide what part of that story you want to address.
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Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
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When I first started as an editorial cartoonist, I was terrified on a daily basis. Filling that hole the next day, knowing that tens of thousands of people were going to expect something funny. There is still that pressure, but you kind of learn how to cope with it a little better.
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Personally, I try to be provocative but not needlessly provocative in my work.