He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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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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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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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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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
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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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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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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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