Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
BERKELEY BREATHEDThat’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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
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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’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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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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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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 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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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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The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I’d wanted to do.
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