Quotes by Berkeley Breathed

Berkeley Breathed

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

Children

Plot

Suspense

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

Deconstruction

Jokes

Tears

Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us… a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

Christmas

Food

Funny

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

Attention

College

Influence

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.

Paper

Writing

Years

I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

Digital Revolution

Fans

Mail

I hate smoothies. Because they won’t offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

Beer

Hate

Smoothies

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

Cards

Guy

Holiday

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.

Daughter

Mom

Mother

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.

Art

Missing

Wall

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Abstraction

Anger

Art

Artist

Attention

Beer

Bunch

Cards

Children

Christmas

College

Daughter

Deconstruction

Digital Revolution

Doors

Eye

Fans

Fascination

Food

Funny

Guy

Hands

Hate

Heart

Holiday

Income

Influence

Jokes

Kids

Laughing

Libertarian

Littles

Mail

Materials

Missing

Mom

Mother

Needs

News

Our Lives

Paper

People

Personality

Photographer

Plot

Politics

Seeing

Should Have

Smoothies

Sometimes

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Quotes by Berkeley Breathed

Berkeley Breathed

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

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

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

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.

I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

I hate smoothies. Because they won’t offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

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

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.

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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