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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.

Berkeley Breathed

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
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he’s a professional whiner in the newspaper.
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Heart Libertarian Politics
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
He comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.
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Dying Pages Want
I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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Digital Revolution Fans Mail
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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Childhood Country Different
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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Country News Photographer
It’s not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one’s own material.
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Laughing Materials Seeing
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.
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Anger Hands Heart
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
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Cards Guy Holiday
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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Elude Genius Irony
I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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Daughter Mom Mother
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
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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Allow Artist Connection People
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Funny Happiness Happy
Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns.
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Children Plot Suspense

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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