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.
BERKELEY BREATHEDI 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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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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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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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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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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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’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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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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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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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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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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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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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 happen to think nearly everybody – especially those one might find in the odd issue of ‘People’ magazine, including me – is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.
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