Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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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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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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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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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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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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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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