Anyone should be able to read comics.
Ted Rall

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
Ted Rall

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
Ted Rall

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.
Ted Rall

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
Ted Rall

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.
Ted Rall

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
Ted Rall

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Ted Rall

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
Ted Rall


I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
Ted Rall

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Ted Rall

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall

I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
Ted Rall

I'm a better polemicist in prose.
Ted Rall

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
Ted Rall

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
Ted Rall

Most people don't know how to tell stories.
Ted Rall

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall