Phil Witte > Quotes

“I feel that the cartoon should involve something happening that could not possibly happen, but which has a kind of truth to it. There should be a give-and-take between the truth and the implausibility. If those two things are going on at the exact same time, and they’re both equal in weight, then the brain has a conflict that it has to resolve, and it can only resolve it through laughter.”
― Phil Witte, Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons

“Just as music courses enhance our appreciation by dissecting melody, rhythm, and harmony, Funny Stuff accomplishes a similar feat for gag cartoons.”
― Phil Witte, Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons