A biography for Ted Rallhasn’t been written yet.
“Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.”
“At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.”
“I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.”
“Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.”
“Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.”
“Most people don't know how to tell stories.”
“I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.”
“I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.”
“When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.”
“I'm a better polemicist in prose.”
“But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.”
“Even now, years later, it's hard to tell why the government stood by and let the city of New Orleans be destroyed, dispatching troops rather than help.”
“I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.”
“There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.”
“On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.”
“Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.”
“Anyone should be able to read comics.”
“The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.”
“When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.”
“It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.”