Harry Potter’ shouldn’t be children’s first experience with suspense and plot turns. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don’t pop into mind when one sees one. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
