Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he’s a professional whiner in the newspaper.
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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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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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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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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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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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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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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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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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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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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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 don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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