Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
BERKELEY BREATHEDSteve Dallas…a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He’s never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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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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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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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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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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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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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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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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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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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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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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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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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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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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
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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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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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