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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

Berkeley Breathed

The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that’d done them for a living. And I didn’t have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn’t have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Connection Fans Living Material Relationship Work
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
BERKELEY BREATHED

Evolution Mind
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Challenges Digital Mind
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Attention College Influence
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Funny Happiness Happy
Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
BERKELEY BREATHED

Christmas Food Funny
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.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Children Goodbye Stupid
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.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Anger Hands Heart
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.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Allow Artist Connection People
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Deconstruction Jokes Tears
I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Digital Revolution Fans Mail
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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Abstraction Income Wanted
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
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Abridged Lives Our Paperback
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
I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
BERKELEY BREATHED

Bunch Libertarian Subtext
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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Country News Photographer

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

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