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.
BERKELEY BREATHEDIt’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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If 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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Steve 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.
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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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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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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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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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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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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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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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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