Quotes by Berkeley Breathed

About Berkeley Breathed:

Guy Berkeley "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 (e.g., Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.
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Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds...and a baby step taken into life's endless possibilities for wonder and jo...

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

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

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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.

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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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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 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 w...

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

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

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

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

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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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Author Bio

  • NameBerkeley Breathed
  • DescriptionCartoonist
  • BornJune 21, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Editorial Cartooning