For previous note, "A Bloom County Thanksgiving, click here.
Talking of Berke Breathed, I found this 2004 interview in Psychology Today. Here are some memorable quotes:
[quote begins from Berkeley Breathed by William Whitman in Psychology Today, Jan.-Feb 2004]
Although I'm an atheist, I don't fear death more than, say, sharing a room in a detox center with a sobbing Rush Limbaugh.
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[quote begins from Berkeley Breathed by William Whitman in Psychology Today, Jan.-Feb 2004]
INTERVIEWER. Outland started with new characters, then characters from Bloom County crept back in.
BREATHED. They were like in-laws. You send them home, try to get on with your life, and then whom, doggone if it's not Thanksgiving again. With the new Opus strip, I've warned all the old characters that they'll be shot if they try to came back. Not that this worked with my mother-in-law.
[quote ends]
Breathed's obviously a private person. There's just not that much out there about him. He keeps himself to himself. But this interview in Salon explains his reemergence.
[quote begins from Salon.com, "The penguin is mightier than the sword" by Jesse Jarnow]
The world went and got silly again. I left in 1995 with things properly, safely dull, and couldn't imagine why anyone would feel it necessary again to start behaving ridiculously. It would have been at least courteous of the Republicans to warn a few of us inclined to retire our ink-swords that they had King George waiting in his zoom-zoom jetsuit aching to start the Crusades again....
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Breathed's official website is here. His favorite strips can be viewed there. Of the ones he selected, this one---lawyer Steve Dallas's letter to a client who hasn't paid up as dictated to, then reframed by his legal secretary, Opus---is one of my all time favorites. And any strip involving Oliver Wendell Jones is worth reading, including this one, in which his discovery of the Grand Unification Theory (no room in it for flightless waterfowl) causes Opus to disappear. Thankfully, OWH finds a loophole.
Since posting this article, I've added a couple of Bloom County references to my bookmark list. There's an interesting discussion of Bloom County here at Everything2.com. I definitely don't agree with all the opinions expressed in it, but it's a pretty detailed account of the evolution of BC. And--in the interests of thoroughness---here's a review of the Opus opus.
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