Berkeley Breathed

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Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book designer, producer, and screenwriter best known for his comic strips Bloom County, Outland, and Opus.

In 1987, Bloom County received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Early life

Breathed was born in Encino, California, but raised in Houston, Texas.

Personal life

Breathed is a fan of outdoor sports like powerboating and motorcycle riding. He broke his back in an ultralight-plane crash in 1986, which was later turned into a Bloom County storyline in which Steve Dallas breaks his back after being attacked by an outraged Sean Penn. Breathed also lost his right arm to a boating crash.

Breathed has declared himself an atheist, but he doesn't worry about dying more than "sharing a room in a detox center with a sobbing Rush Limbaugh."

Breathed's comic strip Opus on May 18, 2008, he revealed he was suffering from spasmodic torticollis.

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Cartooning career

Breathed was first published when he was hired part-time by the Austin American-Statesman to draw editorial cartoons for the newspaper. This career was short-lived; he was fired immediately after one of his cartoons caused outrage. The Academia Waltz, which appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978, was his first comic strip to be published regularly. He was a student at the University of Texas. Breathed wrote two collections of The Academia Waltz while at University of Texas, earning the funds to fund his tuition. The comic strip attracted The Washington Post's editor's notice, who had hired him to do a nationally syndicated strip.

Bloom County made its debut on December 8, 1980. Former frat-boy Steve Dallas and veteran Vietnam war soldier Cutter John were among the characters from Academia Waltz's film. The strip's style, which was so similar to that of another famous strip, Doonesbury, that Doonesbury's creator Garry Trudeau wrote to Breathed several times to highlight their similarity. Breathed has admitted that he borrowed liberally from Doonesbury early in his career. Breathed even included an early Bloom County perspective in the Outland collection, although it obviously stole its idea from the Doonesbury comic strip, which it had not invented.

During 1988, Bloom County received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. The strip appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world before Breathed resigned the daily newspaper in 1989, saying he wanted to end the strip while it was still popular. "A good comic strip is no more timeless than a ripe melon," he said at the time. In most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators," the sad truth is.

In 1989, Breathed began outland, which incorporated some of the Bloom County characters, including Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat. In 1995, he moved to Outland.

Breathed started Opus, a Sunday-only strip starring Opus the Penguin, one of Bloom County's main characters.

Several newspapers have chosen not to run the Opus cartoon in August 26, 2007 because it might offend Muslims.

Breathed revealed plans on October 6, 2008, and that with the last Opus strip, which will run on November 2, 2008, all comic strip work will be discontinued. Breathed intending to concentrate on writing children's books. Breathed said he felt that the United States was going to face "rough times" and that he wanted to end the "common story "on a lighter note."

The last Opus comic strip was on time, but the final panel, which may be a comic first, required an online connection. Opus was peacefully sleeping in the bed depicted in the classic children's book, Goodnight Moon. This panel was only available online, and the Humane Society of the United States' website that displayed it was later removed.

Breathed said he had no regrets in halting political cartooning because the environment became too bad for him to make quality cartoons.

Breathed expressed hope for a return to the strip in July 2015 when he posted a snapshot of him at his computer on Facebook, beginning with a cartoon entitled "Bloom County 2015." "A return to 25 years" he said. It's like going home." The strip was later posted on Facebook. As of January 2018, he has been posting new Bloom County stripes on Facebook on an almost daily basis. (The word "2015" was stripped from the new strip's name in 2016).

Breathed penned a collection of strips based on Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes in 2021. Watterson's Calvin Spiff and Hobbes the Tiger were among the panels featured on Watterson's Calvin as Spaceman Spiff and Hobbes the Tiger.

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Awards

• Inkpot Award, 2010
• Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, 1987
• Golden Duck Award for Excellence in Children's Science Fiction for Mars Needs Moms! 2008 Picture Book