A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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’ll confess right here that I secretly wish I’d have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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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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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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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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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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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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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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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