Berkeley Breathed Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.

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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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• If nothing is serious anymore, then there’s nothing to satirize.

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• My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

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• Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

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• 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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Berkeley Breathed (29)

Birth:	21st June, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Berke Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.

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