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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.

Berkeley Breathed

He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Dying Pages Want
The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Littles Needs Sometimes
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Elude Genius Irony
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.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Cat Years Yelling
If you’ll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you’ll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Dodging Fashioned Libertarian Many Old Subject
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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Attention College Influence
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Childhood Country Different
Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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Christmas Food Funny
And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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Bunnies Granny Jammies
I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Digital Revolution Fans Mail
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
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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Issues People Thinking
Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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Children Plot Suspense
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Abridged Lives Our Paperback
My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Doors Eye Kids
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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Comfort Cynical Heart

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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