Well, he tried, but he ended up being kind of original anyway.
Years later, when some hack was doing a strip called “Heartland” that looked like a desperate attempt to ape Breathed’s style, Berke said he sent the guy an email that said, “Yeah, I see what you’re doing. It’s like what I started out doing. You’ll get over it.” Said the guy wrote back and said he didn’t know what he could possibly be talking about. (Comics Journal interview, long time ago.)
Well, he tried, but he ended up being kind of original anyway.
Years later, when some hack was doing a strip called “Heartland” that looked like a desperate attempt to ape Breathed’s style, Berke said he sent the guy an email that said, “Yeah, I see what you’re doing. It’s like what I started out doing. You’ll get over it.” Said the guy wrote back and said he didn’t know what he could possibly be talking about. (Comics Journal interview, long time ago.)