I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
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. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
And that’s why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote
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. Berkeley Breathed Read Quote