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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More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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 don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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