Berkeley Breathed Quotes

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

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

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

It used to be if you wanted to do a newspaper comic, you had to appeal to a pretty big chunk of the newspaper's readership for them to want to keep you around. 'Dilbert' would be office humor, but even that is pretty widely experienced.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.

Cartooning really is just designing.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate way that a huge pop tune hits you in the face.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.

'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.

Cartooning, quietly and discreetly, drew me into the circle of politics and I continue to enjoy both. They both inspire me and I could never given up one for the other.

With many comic strips, knowing when to quit isn't a problem: The syndicate editors simply cancel a feature that is losing papers.

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.

Comics are primal, down and dirty.

I try to look at the films as I make them from a distance, in a way. I think of them as kind of pop culture artefacts. I'll often make posters and tag lines as I'm working on them, and not just conceive of them as a story I'm going to tell, but as a whole, a piece - a whole object that exists in the pop culture realm.