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" I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan. "
Berkeley Breathed
Photographer
News
Texan
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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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" Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke. "
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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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Goodbye
Child
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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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Long
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" The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it. "
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Want
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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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Me
" 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. "
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" Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. "
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Even
Find
" 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. "
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Mars
Daughter
Calling
" My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. "
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Write
Kids
Period
" And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. "
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Simple
Why
Beat
" I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. "
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Holidays
Greeting
Guy
" 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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Now
You
Wall
" I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place. "
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Always
Los Angeles
Place
" If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize. "
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Then
Anymore
Serious
" It's never too late to have a happy childhood. "
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Childhood
Never Too Late
Happy
" 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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Who
Did
College
" 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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Universe
Wish
Fake
" 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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More
Rich
End
" 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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Personality
Will
Involved
" 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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Way
Find
Boring
" Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. "
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Moral
World
Tell
" 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. "
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I Can
Emotion
Heart