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It's never too late to have a happy childhood. (Berkeley Breathed)

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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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.

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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 proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.

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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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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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Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

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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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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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I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. (Berkeley Breathed)

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 papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

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I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

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

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

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

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He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

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Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. (Berkeley Breathed)

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

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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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'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.

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Photo: Brian Eisley, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: American Cartoonist
Born: June 21, 1957
Quotes count: 25

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