The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that’d done them for a living. And I didn’t have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn’t have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
BERKELEY BREATHEDIf you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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I’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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A turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.
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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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