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Berkeley Breathed

Berkeley Breathed

American Cartoonist

Born: Jun 21, 1957

Any Comic Find Me Mind You

Related authors: Bil Keane Bill Watterson Caroll Spinney Charles M. Schulz Gary Larson Matt Groening Scott Adams Walt Disney

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

Happy Too Late Never Too Late Too Late Never Childhood Happy Childhood

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

Experience First Harry Harry Potter Plot Potter Suspense Children Turns

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

Nature Cleaning Lose Pay Once Draw Papers Bet More Could Write Over County Half-Life Years Bloom Than Established Nose Lady Next Twenty Waste Nuclear

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

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. Berkeley Breathed

Comic Go Want Dying Page

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. Berkeley Breathed

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

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

Change Books Kids Resulted Write Instant Period

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 You Finished Ways Physical Some Price Miss Longer Piece Terribly Wall Hang Pity Biggest Paint Pays Now

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. Berkeley Breathed

Failure Anger Heart Political OK Drawing Stripping Frankly Cartoon Cartoons Follows Driving Driving Force Force Opposed Hand Interests Your Serve

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

You Joke Down Cartooning About Something Make Gotta Deconstruction Tear

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

Saying Fans Stupid Thirty Bit Saying Goodbye About Drew Rather Never Goodbye Like Him Because Got Were His Years Child Ironic Which While Midnight Sentimental Many Ever Image Last Playing

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