Berkeley Breathed

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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