Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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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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 was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something.
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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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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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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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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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 ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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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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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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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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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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