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Berkeley Breathed

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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.


— Berkeley Breathed


#comic #comic strips #end #end result #established

I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion.


— Berkeley Breathed


#bit #comforting #comic #cynical #emotion

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.


— Berkeley Breathed


#dying #go #i #page #want

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.


— Berkeley Breathed


#backwards #beat #books #built #emotionally






About Berkeley Breathed






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The strip eventually appeared in over 1200 newspapers around the world until Berkeley retired the daily strip in 1989 stating that he wanted to terminate the strip while it was still popular. Breathed has been a supporter of the animal rights group PETA and illustrated the cover of their Compassionate Cookbook T-shirts and other merchandise. Breathed plans to focus on writing children's books.

Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (/ˈbrɛðɨd/ BRETH-əd; born June 21 1957) is an American cartoonist children's book author/illustrator director and screenwriter best known for Bloom County a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.

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