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 BREATHEDI don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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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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A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
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He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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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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Steve 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.
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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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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 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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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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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’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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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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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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