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British ( Falkland Islands) Opus the Penguin ( Opus T. Penguin) is a fictional character created by artist Berkeley Breathed. [1] [2] Breathed has described him as an " existentialist penguin" and the favorite of his many characters. Opus has appeared in several of Breathed's creations, most notably his 1980s comic strip Bloom County. [3]
Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed from November 23, 2003, to November 2, 2008. [1] It was Breathed's fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland . Set in Bloom County, the satirical strip featured Breathed's character Opus the Penguin. It was launched on November 23, 2003, and was syndicated by ...
Berkeley Breathed. (2003–2008). Guy Berkeley " Berke " Breathed ( / ˈbrɛθɪd /; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author, director, and screenwriter, known for his comic strips Bloom County, Outland, and Opus. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987.
Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk.
v. t. e. An example of a classic full-page Sunday humor strip, Billy DeBeck 's Barney Google and Spark Plug (January 2, 1927), showing how an accompanying topper strip was displayed on a Sunday page. The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most Western newspapers. Compared to weekday comics, Sunday comics tend to ...
Comic book nerd Christmas has arrived, with Free Comic Book Day kicking off on Saturday, May 7. This year is the 20th anniversary of this annual event, which offers free comics to anyone who asks.
Washington Post Writers Group. Genre (s) Humor, Politics, Satire. Preceded by. Bloom County. Followed by. Opus. Outland is a comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. [1] It was a Sunday-only spin-off of Breathed's strip Bloom County, featuring many the same characters.
The Sunday Comics is a prime time showcase of comedy broadcast in the United States by Fox Broadcasting Company in 1991 and 1992. The Sunday Comics showcased not only standup comedy but also variety acts, and film shorts produced by comics including Bruce Baum , Gilbert Gottfried , Rich Hall , and Rick Overton .