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Berkeley Breathed

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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.


— Berkeley Breathed


#happy #happy childhood #late #never #never too late

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#before #comes #even #find #lives

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


#backwards #beat #books #built #emotionally

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#cartooning #deconstruction #down #gotta #joke

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#despite #moral #simply #tell #world

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#attention #cartoonist #college #course #did

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.


— Berkeley Breathed


#angeles #childhood #different #different place #far

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#experience #first #harry #harry potter #plot

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#comes #greeting #guy #hallmark #holidays

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'


— Berkeley Breathed


#bloom #county #environment #harper #kill






About Berkeley Breathed






Did you know about Berkeley Breathed?

The strip eventually appeared in over 1200 newspapers around the world until Berkeley retired the daily strip in 1989 stating that he wanted to terminate the strip while it was still popular. Breathed has been a supporter of the animal rights group PETA and illustrated the cover of their Compassionate Cookbook T-shirts and other merchandise. Breathed plans to focus on writing children's books.

Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (/ˈbrɛðɨd/ BRETH-əd; 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 that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.

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