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.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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 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 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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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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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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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’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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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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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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