About Berkeley Breathed
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed 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. Breathed was first published when he was hired part-time by the Austin American-Statesman to draw editorial cartoons for the newspaper. His first comic strip published regularly was The Academia Waltz, which appeared in the Daily Texan, in 1978 while he was a student at the University of Texas. The last Opus comic strip appeared on schedule, but in what may be a comic first, the final panel required an online link. Breathed said that he had no regrets in leaving political cartooning, as he believed the atmosphere became too bitter for him to make quality cartoons.
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