I listened to a ~ 30 min video entitled “Spotlight on Berkeley Breathed: Bloom County & Beyond —
New York Comic Con 2016.” It was very interesting. In it he describes how he wrote to Nelle Harper Lee author of “To Kill A Mockingbird” when he was a teenager and how he requested she write more books about the characters in her book. He received no reply.
Berke went on years later to invent his comic strip and based it on a fictional small town like in Lee’s book. The rest was history, as they say. Until…
Until, Berke retired his comic strip. He then heard from Lee asking him to continue with it. This was 30 years after he wrote to her.
How interesting! Intuitively Lee saw herself in him.
I won’t link the video for fear of being off topic!
(It is easily found online)
However, I do like penguins.
Like Bill the Cat too!
Breathed had an earlier comic strip, Academia Waltz, which, if I’m not mistaken, he drew while he was in university. The character of Steve Dallas is in that one and he was a lowlife even then. The closest thing to Bill the Cat and/or Opus was a rather clever dog who put up with Dallas’s scumbaggery.
And, yes, AW is on Gocomics as well.
BC originally was about some of the goings-on in a boarding house of some sort, featuring Milo Bloom. Eventually, other characters were introduced and they took over the story line, which is why Opus (whose beak changed a lot over the years) is featured in many of the strips.
Neat.
Just a few scattered thoughts:
Just checking a few available strips of “Academia Waltz”–very funny! (Beer, girls, & flatulence)
Yes, right, Opus was in BC. Ha!
A lot of the characters in the BB comic strips have big noses. (animal or humans. So funny)
It was said that “Bloom County” was the greatest comic strip ever. I should think anything by BB would be funny.
Incidently, “Milo” is named after BB’s son in real life. (He mentioned him in the 30 min video)
Thanks, B A —
these are good reminders of life in the past when we still had newspapers.
Cheers!
You’re welcome.
I long thought that BC was funnier and far more irreverent than Doonesbury, accomplishing that without being nasty. The latter became lacklustre over the years, particularly after Gary Trudeau temporarily suspended it during the early 1980s.
It’s the most popular video over at the polar bear exhibit.
cute. The kids are enjoying the daily facebook/YouTube broadcasts from the Cincinnati zoo. A good variety of critters to learn about.
Cute, but none of them are like Opus from the comic strip Bloom County.
“I’ll have the fat one and a side of bat soup” ~ A viewer from Wuhan.
Nice!
I would add that bat-penguin should be served blue-rare to preserve that special je ne sais quoi.
Penguin Whisperer
These are terrific photos:
https://www.boredpanda.com/photography-cute-penguins-antarctica-albert-dros/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
And then there’s this:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=opus+bloom+county+image&ia=images&iax=images
☆ Then there’s this:
*☆
* °☆ “Bloom County is back!”
☆°
https://youtu.be/KxEBNO3GP1U
“On the road to the greatest destination, it is the place where, in the end, each of us, finally, truly belongs…”
Watch “The Bill the Cat Story.” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/LT3QjMCLqwc
Berke Breathed resurrected Bloom County a few years ago, but the strips appear sporadically.
Gocomics is still running the originals. It’s nice to be reminded just how funny it was.
Watch “Opus ‘n Bill Bloom County Screensaver (1993) [10/16] ‘Penguins'” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/xeUpyox5hlA
I like the screensavers, there’s many online.
I listened to a ~ 30 min video entitled “Spotlight on Berkeley Breathed: Bloom County & Beyond —
New York Comic Con 2016.” It was very interesting. In it he describes how he wrote to Nelle Harper Lee author of “To Kill A Mockingbird” when he was a teenager and how he requested she write more books about the characters in her book. He received no reply.
Berke went on years later to invent his comic strip and based it on a fictional small town like in Lee’s book. The rest was history, as they say. Until…
Until, Berke retired his comic strip. He then heard from Lee asking him to continue with it. This was 30 years after he wrote to her.
How interesting! Intuitively Lee saw herself in him.
I won’t link the video for fear of being off topic!
(It is easily found online)
However, I do like penguins.
Like Bill the Cat too!
Breathed had an earlier comic strip, Academia Waltz, which, if I’m not mistaken, he drew while he was in university. The character of Steve Dallas is in that one and he was a lowlife even then. The closest thing to Bill the Cat and/or Opus was a rather clever dog who put up with Dallas’s scumbaggery.
And, yes, AW is on Gocomics as well.
BC originally was about some of the goings-on in a boarding house of some sort, featuring Milo Bloom. Eventually, other characters were introduced and they took over the story line, which is why Opus (whose beak changed a lot over the years) is featured in many of the strips.
Neat.
Just a few scattered thoughts:
Just checking a few available strips of “Academia Waltz”–very funny! (Beer, girls, & flatulence)
Yes, right, Opus was in BC. Ha!
A lot of the characters in the BB comic strips have big noses. (animal or humans. So funny)
It was said that “Bloom County” was the greatest comic strip ever. I should think anything by BB would be funny.
Incidently, “Milo” is named after BB’s son in real life. (He mentioned him in the 30 min video)
Thanks, B A —
these are good reminders of life in the past when we still had newspapers.
Cheers!
You’re welcome.
I long thought that BC was funnier and far more irreverent than Doonesbury, accomplishing that without being nasty. The latter became lacklustre over the years, particularly after Gary Trudeau temporarily suspended it during the early 1980s.
It’s the most popular video over at the polar bear exhibit.
cute. The kids are enjoying the daily facebook/YouTube broadcasts from the Cincinnati zoo. A good variety of critters to learn about.