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Berkeley Breathed

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.

— Berkeley Breathed time

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

— Berkeley Breathed happy

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.

— Berkeley Breathed art

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

— Berkeley Breathed world

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

— Berkeley Breathed day

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.

— Berkeley Breathed life

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.

— Berkeley Breathed mind

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

— Berkeley Breathed men

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

— Berkeley Breathed art

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.

— Berkeley Breathed imagination

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.

— Berkeley Breathed day

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

— Berkeley Breathed books

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

— Berkeley Breathed childhood

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

— Berkeley Breathed

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

— Berkeley Breathed live

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.

— Berkeley Breathed art

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.

— Berkeley Breathed emotion

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

— Berkeley Breathed humor

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.

— Berkeley Breathed life

Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.

— Berkeley Breathed art

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

— Berkeley Breathed children

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

— Berkeley Breathed art

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

— Berkeley Breathed pain

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.

— Berkeley Breathed time

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

— Berkeley Breathed books

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