Berkeley Breathed Professions : Cartoonist Born : June 21, 1957 Browse All Authors Top 44 quotes by 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 stupid goodbye children 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 daughter mom mother He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. Berkeley Breathed pages dying want Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. Berkeley Breathed deconstruction jokes tears Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. Berkeley Breathed influence college attention 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 anger heart hands 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 paper writing years Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. Berkeley Breathed our-lives Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. Berkeley Breathed libertarian politics heart I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they know something. Berkeley Breathed college america thinking A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE! Berkeley Breathed apes evolution mind I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. Berkeley Breathed subtext libertarian bunch 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 adventure boys 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 yelling cat years If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. Berkeley Breathed serious ifs Steve Dallas...a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees. Berkeley Breathed girlfriend boys school My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. Berkeley Breathed writing book children 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 readership portions mind Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. Berkeley Breathed tell you moral world 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 result end rich nature Similar Authors Al Capp cartoonist Bill Amend cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley cartoonist Art Spiegelman cartoonist Alison Bechdel cartoonist Alex Toth cartoonist All Authors
