Berkeley Breathed Quotes

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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.
• 'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
• Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
• 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…
• 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…
• I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would…
• He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.
• Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
• 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…
• I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my…
• 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…
• I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
• I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
• I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring,…
• 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…
• I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
• 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…
• 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,…
• If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.
• 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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