Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
BERKELEY BREATHEDSteve 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.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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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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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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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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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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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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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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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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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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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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