The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
BERKELEY BREATHEDKeep 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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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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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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It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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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 will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
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I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he’s a professional whiner in the newspaper.
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