Berkeley Breathed Quotes

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Berkeley Breathed

Profession : Cartoonist

Birth : June 21, 1957

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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