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Berkeley Breathed

Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (/ˈbrɛðɪd/ BREDH-id; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip and more recent Internet cartoons that reflect sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.g., Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987.

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He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

Comic, Dying, Page, Pages, Want

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.

Emotionally, Fascination, Involved, Personality, State, States

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

1980, Attention, College, Influence, Overwhelming, Requisite

A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!

Apes, Complete, Evolution, Making, Mind, Nonsense

Steve Dallas. . . a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.

Boys, Girlfriend, Lawyer, Legal, School, Steve

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Challenge, Challenges, Computers, Digital, Mind, Painting

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

Children, Harry, Plot, Suspense, Turns

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

Digital, Digital Revolution, Fans, Mail, Revolution

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

Cards, Guy, Hallmark, Holiday, Holidays

Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Heart, Libertarian, Politics, Shmiberal, Subtext

I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.

Beer, Hate, Ingredient, Smoothies

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.

Cat, Day, Drawn, Years, Yelling

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.

Child, Children, Goodbye, Image, Sentimental, Stupid

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.

Art, Biggest, Missing, Paint, Pity, Wall

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.

Alike, Everybody, Issues, People, Thinking

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

News, Photographer, Texas, University

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Elude, Genius, Irony

And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.

Bunnies, Bunny, Granny, Jammies, Ordered, Proper

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Libertarian, Professional, Subtext, Whiners

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.

Daughter, Mom, Mother, Movie, Title

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