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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.

Berkeley Breathed

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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Affection Anyone Capable Country Dead Social
My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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Doors Eye Kids
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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Elude Genius Irony
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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Children Goodbye Stupid
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Abridged Lives Our Paperback
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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Challenges Digital Mind
It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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Laughing Materials Seeing
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
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Deconstruction Jokes Tears
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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Country News Photographer
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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Paper Writing Years
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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America College Thinking
Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.
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Mind Portions Readership
Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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Children Plot Suspense
He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Dying Pages Want
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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Adventure Boys Imagination
I paint digitally now. A pity, in some ways, as the biggest price one pays is that you no longer have a finished piece of physical art to hang on a wall. I miss that terribly.
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Art Missing Wall

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