Ain't It Cool has an excellent interview with Berke Breathed, creator of Bloom County, The Outlands, Opus, and other comic strips. Breathed is classy, yet still hilarious, as he answers numerous questions regarding working in the cartooning industry, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the death of newspapers, and more.
Really interesting profile of a cartooning legend and an interesting look inside his mind. Breathed insists he received little respect from fellow cartoonists, whom he says pegged him as the "fraud" he was, but I was blissfully unaware of that during Bloom County's run. As the interview explains, Bloom County, The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes stand as the closers for the American comic strip, but forerunners such as Garfield and B.C. set the stage.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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