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 BREATHEDThe universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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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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I’d be a Libertarian, if they weren’t all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.
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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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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 started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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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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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.
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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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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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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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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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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.
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