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
Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
I hate smoothies. Because they won't offer Firestone IPA beer as an ingredient.
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE!
The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
The cartooning was always just an abstraction. It was an income. It was making me famous. It was allowing me to go and do other things that I'd wanted to do.
I knew 'Mars Needs Moms! ' would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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.
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.
I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.
Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.
And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.