He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
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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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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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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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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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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 can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.
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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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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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