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• Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

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• Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

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• It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.

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

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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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• The comic page is dying; I didn’t want to go with it.

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

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• 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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• 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 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 20 years.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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Berkeley Breathed (29)

Birth:	21st June, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Berke Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.

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