Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End | movie | 2017 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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Transcript

00:00Do I want my art to be a threat to the dominant culture?

00:06Yes.

00:07Everybody can think differently, so therefore, everybody will think differently.

00:12So get used to it.

00:14Don't take it personally.

00:15Like the kid in the back of the class who thought the teacher's full of shit and these

00:19other smartasses don't know what they're talking about.

00:21He's drawing some wild little cartoon, you know, mocking it all.

00:28If he'd go out shopping or something, he'd leave me a little note to let me know where

00:31he was.

00:32I went for a walk.

00:33He's lying in a puddle of blood.

00:35He is doing really what editorial cartoonists are meant to do.

00:39This guy has balls.

00:46I think it's the responsibility of every artist to reflect the times in which they live.

00:51That's why Mr. Fish's work is really important.

00:53It's not a dying profession.

00:55It is a profession that is being systematically murdered.

00:59What editors like are funny little jokes that offend no one.

01:03He doesn't play the way you play if you want to be rewarded.

01:07I get a little squeamish when the audience treats cartoons as something quaint, as something

01:13cute.

01:14I want cartooning to be dangerous, and I want it to be something more than just ink on paper.

01:25I think it's the responsibility of every editor to reflect the times in which they live.

01:29That's why Mr. Fish's work is really important.