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.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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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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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.
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I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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I happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I’d wanted to do.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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