Berkeley Breathed

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Berkeley Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, novelist, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies. His first regularly published strip, Academia Waltz, appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978. The strip attracted notice from the editors of the Washington Post who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz, including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paraplegic Vietnam war veteran Cutter John. Bloom County earned Berkeley the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until he retired the daily strip in 1989, stating, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators". He replaced this strip with the surreal Sunday-only cartoon, Outland in 1989, which featured some of the Bloom County characters, including Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat. He ended Outland in 1995. Eight years later, Berkeley began producing the comic strip, Opus, a Sunday-only strip featuring Opus the Penguin, who was one of the iconic characters from Bloom County. He colors the cartoon himself with Adobe Photoshop. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/About.asp

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Berkeley Breatheds Outland The Complete Library Sunday Comics 19891995
Representative edition published 2012
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Bloom County
Representative edition published 2012
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Bloom County
Representative edition published 2012
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Bloom County 5 The Complete Library
Representative edition published 2011
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Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 1
Representative edition published 2009
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Flawed Dogs
Representative edition published 2009
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Pete 'n' Pickles
Representative edition published 2008
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Mars Needs Moms!
Representative edition published 2007
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Opus Fold and Mail Stationery
Representative edition published 2006
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Opus Journal
Representative edition published 2006
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Opus Postcard Box
Representative edition published 2006
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Opus
Representative edition published 2004
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OPUS
Representative edition published 2004
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Flawed Dogs, The Novel
Representative edition published 2003
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Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big
Representative edition published 2003
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The Last Basselope
Representative edition published 2001
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Edwurd Fudwupper fibbed big
Representative edition published 2000
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A Wish for Wings That Work
Representative edition published 1999
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Red Ranger Came Calling
Representative edition published 1997
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Goodnight Opus
Representative edition published 1996
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One last little peek, 1980-1995
Representative edition published 1995
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The Christmas Opus 'n Bill
Representative edition published 1994
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His kisses are dreamy-- but those hairballs down my cleavage--!
Representative edition published 1994
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Goodnight Opus
Representative edition published 1993
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