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I'm Very Bummed About Opus..
Submitted by MMRules on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 5:49am.
Berkeley Breathed's 'Opus' Comic Strip Will End Next Month
By Dave Astor
Published: October 06, 2008
NEW YORK "Opus" is ending Nov. 2, Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) Comics Editor Amy Lago announced this afternoon.
In this Sept. 8 blog post, E&P had wondered if Berkeley Breathed might pull the plug on his Sunday-only strip -- given all the hints the cartoonist was making about that in his comic.
"Opus," which began almost five years ago, will be the third comic Breathed ends. The first and most famous was the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Bloom County" (1980-1989), followed by "Outland" (1989-1995). "Bloom County" had about 1,300 clients when it stopped.
Breathed, who has done a number of children's books, insists that this time he's getting out of the comics business for good. He joked in a statement that the best way he can help his country during the current financial and political crisis is to "write funny stories for America's kids. I call on John McCain to join me."
WPWG Editorial Director/General Manager Alan Shearer praised Breathed, saying the cartoonist "pushed all sorts of topical and stylistic envelopes" and "influenced a generation of new cartoonists."
Lago said Breathed is ending his comic with a contest asking readers to guess Opus the penguin's fate. Currently, the character is in prison courtesy of U.S. authorities. The actual solution will be available only on the Internet, not in newspapers, according to WPWG.
In addition to doing children's books, Breathed in recent years has worked on screenplays and novels. His "Pete & Pickles" kids' book is due in stores Oct. 16, and the Californian is finishing a novel for young readers called "Flawed Dogs."
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Any comments on the "Opus" ending, "Bloom County," or Berkeley Breathed? Feel free to leave them under this E&P blog post.
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I loved this from the comments about the last strip over at Salon:
I'm gonna miss that little penguin...
The curse of getting older is having cherished things become mere memories.
I found myself crying looking at that last frame of Opus in his paradise, an icon of one more happy thing passing into history. Why should it touch me? A mere silly cartoon penguin?
Opus is a touchstone I suppose for all those wonderful things that have passed out of this world, hopefully something wonderful will fill his space, but never take his place; as it is with all the things, places, times and people we love that pass on into history, legend and memory.
It's a nice place to leave Opus, but I prefer to think of him waking from that nap tomorrow and frolicking in some magical place where Calvin and Hobbes and the Peanuts gang are just down the street for visits and hilarious hijinks. Occasionally on The Far Side of the hill they will all frolic together in comics paradise.
Opus will surely be quite at home there in that comics land, saner than the one he is leaving us all behind in.
Good night sweet penguin and thanks for the memories Berkeley.
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." - Calvin & Hobbes
-- Mike Jackson
Berkeley Breathed interviews
from The Onion (2001)
from Salon (2003)
Excerpt:
Salon: Last we heard from you, via the Onion interview a few years back, the odds of you ever doing a strip again seemed pretty slim (to put it mildly). What changed?
Berkeley: 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.
Breathed may be finished pruning the shrubs but I hope he realizes (and soon!) that there're always new weeds popping up that need yanking.
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