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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.

Berkeley Breathed

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.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Cat Years Yelling
Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Children Plot Suspense
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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Doors Eye Kids
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 BREATHED

Paper Writing Years
The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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Littles Needs Sometimes
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Elude Genius Irony
He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Dying Pages Want
I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Bunch Libertarian Subtext
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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Connection Fans Living Material Relationship Work
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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Allow Artist Connection People
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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America College Thinking
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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Affection Anyone Capable Country Dead Social
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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Fascination Personality States
It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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Laughing Materials Seeing
I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Digital Revolution Fans Mail
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Funny Happiness Happy

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.

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