Berkeley Breathed
Berkeley Breathed
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathedis 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 charactersand through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth21 June 1957
CityEncino, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.
And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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.
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
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.
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'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
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.
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
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.
My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.