Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
BERKELEY BREATHEDMy kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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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 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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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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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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