It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
BERKELEY BREATHEDIt’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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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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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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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 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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