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Subject: Opus Returns! Long Live the Penquin!
Written By: Race_Bannon on 09/09/03 at 05:28 p.m.
Opus is returning to Sunday comic strips
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is resurrecting Opus the penguin from the 1980s comic strip "Bloom County" for a new series to appear in Sunday comics this November.
The Sunday-only strip, to be called "Opus," begins Nov. 23, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. It will be syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group.
A 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winner for editorial cartooning, Breathed stopped drawing the daily "Bloom County" in 1989 when it was running in nearly 1,300 papers. He began a Sunday strip, "Outland," with many of the same characters - including the penguin's hairball-hacking sidekick, Bill the cat - but quit that in 1995.
Partly chalking it up to artistic burnout, Breathed said at the time that cartoonists "die and go to cartoon hell for working beyond that magic intersection of art and fun."
He has since written children's books and sold the rights to an Opus movie that could start filming by the end of the year.
Subject: Re: Opus Returns! Long Live the Penquin!
Written By: HolyDooley on 09/11/03 at 07:52 a.m.
I don't know this character, but did a bit of a google search..... and I think he sounds like one cool character.
"When in doubt, run nekid through the periwinkle!!" -- Opus D. Penguin
I'll be keeping an eye out for updates on the new strip. ;D
Subject: Re: Opus Returns! Long Live the Penquin!
Written By: My_name_is_Kenny on 09/11/03 at 12:11 a.m.
I am less than enthusiastic about this, considering how bad Outland was.