Goodnight Opus
Berke Breathed is closing out the Opus comic strip; it’s been a rather long-running sequel to the original, brilliant Bloom County, which is still very much missed.
True story: I happened to be watching the CBS Evening News the night that Dan Rather announced Breathed had won a Pulitzer for Bloom County - only Rather misidentified it as Bloom Country. This was intentional, I instantly realized, because of a particular strip in which a character intones, “Dan Rather is a turnip.”
Okay, I’ll be honest: I didn’t know that Opus was still an ongoing comic strip. I don’t take the paper. So, sue me. Still, it seems Breathed is doing fine, and is still writing and illustrating children’s books. Good for him.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95441421&ps=bb3
