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Berkeley Breathed

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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.


— Berkeley Breathed


#biggest #digitally #finished #hang #i

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#i #news #photographer #started #texan

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


#become #capacity #emotionally #endless #exist

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.


— Berkeley Breathed


#adventures #boy #confess #drawn #fake

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.


— Berkeley Breathed


#could #day #drawn #every #every day

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.


— Berkeley Breathed


#nothing #serious #then

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


— Berkeley Breathed


#computers #digital #enough #huge #huge challenge

Keep in mind that in 1985, I had a potential readership of over 50 million Americans. At that time, a good portion of those were under 30.


— Berkeley Breathed


#had #i #keep #million #mind

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.


— Berkeley Breathed


#change #i #i write #instant #kids

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


#better #books #children #enter #feel






About Berkeley Breathed






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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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