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His Kisses Are Dreamy-- but Those Hairballs Down My Cleavage Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} His Kisses Are Dreamy-- But Those Hairballs Down My Cleavage--! Another Tender Outland Collection by BREATHED, Berke 1957- PERSONAL: Surname rhymes with "method"; born June 21, 1957, in Encino, CA; son of John W. (an oil equipment executive) and Martha Jane (Martin) Breathed; married Jody Boyman (a photographer), May, 1986; children: two. Education: University of Texas at Austin, B.A., 1979. Politics: "Middlewinger." ADDRESSES: Home —Southern CA. Agent —Esther Newberg, ICM, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. CAREER: Cartoonist and writer. University of Texas at Austin, photographer and columnist for Daily Texan (university newspaper), 1976–78; freelance cartoonist, 1978–. AWARDS, HONORS: Harry A. Schweikert, Jr., Disability Awareness Award, Paralyzed Vets of America, 1982, and Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, 1987, both for "Bloom County"; Fund for Animal Genesis Award, 1990, for "outstanding cartoonist focusing on animal welfare issues." WRITINGS: FOR CHILDREN. A Wish for Wings that Work: An Opus Christmas Story , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1991. The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1992. Goodnight Opus , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1993. Red Ranger Came Calling: A Guaranteed True Christmas Story , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994. Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big: Explained by Fannie Fudwupper , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 2000. Flawed Dogs: The Year-end Leftovers at the Piddleton "Last Chance" Dog Pound , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 2003. CARTOON COLLECTIONS. Bloom County: Loose Tails , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1983. 'Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Metal Rump 'n' Roll , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1984. Penguin Dreams, and Stranger Things , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1985. Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1986. Billy and the Boingers Bootleg , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1987. Tales Too Ticklish to Tell , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1988. Night of the Mary Kay Commandos: Featuring Smell-O-Toons , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1989. Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County, 1986–1989 , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1990. Happy Trails , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1990. Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect: The First Outland Collection , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1992. His Kisses Are Dreamy—But Those Hairballs down My Cleavage , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994. The Romantic Opus 'n' Bill , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1994. One Last Little Peek, 1980–1995: The Final Strips, the Special Hits, the Inside Tips , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1995. Opus: Twenty-five Years of His Sunday Best , Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 2004. Creator of comic strips "The Academia Waltz," for Daily Texan , 1978–79, "Bloom County," for syndication by Washington Post Writer's Group, 1980–89, "Opus Goes Home," for Life , 1987, and Sunday-only strips "Outland," 1989–95, and "Opus," 2003–. Contributor of illustrations to The Emperor , 1998. ADAPTATIONS: A Wish for Wings that Work: An Opus Christmas Story was adapted as a CBS-TV special and released on videocassette; Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big: Explained by Fannie Fudwupper was adapted as an animated short film for Nickelodeon Family Films; Red Ranger Came Calling: A Guaranteed True Christmas Story was adapted as a musical. WORK IN PROGRESS: Writing an "Opus" feature film. SIDELIGHTS: Writing and illustrating the popular and satirical "Bloom County" comic strip beginning in 1980, Berke Breathed became one of the country's most popular newspaper cartoonists, winning the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. After 1989, when he retired the curious cast of characters that inhabited "Bloom County," Breathed wrote and illustrated the "Outland" strip, which appeared weekly in the Sunday comics until the spring of 1995, and in 2003 again made a showing on the comics page with "Opus." Beginning in 1991 Breathed also embarked on a second career: as a children's book author, and with titles such as Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big: Explained by Fannie Fudwupper and Red Ranger Came Calling: A Guaranteed True Christmas Story has earned a new set of younger fans. Breathed was born in Encino, California, in 1957, and after high school attended the University of Texas at Austin. In college he began a comic strip "because it was the most effective way to make a point and get people listening," Breathed told an interviewer in Comics Journal . While his overactive imagination may have gotten him into trouble as a child, as a cartoonist it became an asset, and he began working for the Daily Texan , his college school paper, in 1976 as a writer, photographer, and columnist. "I loved the idea of expressing myself in a mass medium … [and] when you drew a figure next to your words, it had an element of attraction for people that was unimaginable to me at the time." During his senior year of college, Breathed approached several newspaper syndicates—companies that market articles, columns, and cartoons to a wide variety of newspapers at the same time—with samples of his work in the hope that he could find a new outlet for his cartoons. A year later he got a call from Al Leeds at the Washington Post , who commissioned the young cartoonist to create a new comic strip for the paper. Breathed's "Bloom County" debuted in newspapers in 1980. Irreverent in tone, "Bloom County" boasts a quirky cast of characters that included scruffy Bill the Cat, who constantly "Ack!"s up hairballs; Opus the over-anxious penguin; and humans such as lowlife lawyer Steve Dallas, scientific whiz-kid Oliver Wendell Jones, disabled Vietnam veteran Cutter John, wimpy ten-year-old Michael Binkley, and ever-gloomy child-entrepreneur Milo Bloom. Touted by many critics as the comic strip of the 1980s, "Bloom County" gained a strong readership and Breathed received letters from loyal fans and offended detractors alike. By the end of the strip's almost-decade-long run, the Pulitzer Prizewinning "Bloom County" was carried in 1,300 newspapers nationwide and reached an estimated forty million readers. In addition, book collections of Breathed's strip sold in the millions of copies, while "Bloom County" critters appeared in numerous spin-off products, from T-shirts to stuffed animals. "Breathed's wildly successful comic strip … was like no strip before or since," explained Tasha Robinson on the Onion A.V. Club Web site . Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness collects the first five years of Breathed's popular strip, and a thumb through its pages reveals how each of the characters—as well as the strip's overall sarcastic slant—developed over time. Breathed "quickly hit his stride," noted Charles Solomon in the Los Angeles Times Book Review , "and turned his strip into something unique." Solomon also praised Breathed's strong characterizations, his improving artistic abilities, and the barbed wit that made "Bloom County" "one of the funniest and most relevant strips" in the newspaper. Billy and the Boingers Bootleg collects the next batch of antics from the "Bloom County" gang. Poking fun at everything from movie stars and espionage rings to heavy metal music—Bill the Cat and his band the Boingers doing a feral rendition of "Deathtongue" are among those images brought to life by a pen heavily inked with satire— Billy and the Boingers Bootleg was sought out by the cartoonist's fans. In Tales Too Ticklish to Tell Bill the Cat trades in his amplified guitar for a microphone, a teleprompter, and a hat, and now passes as the televangelist "Fundamentally Oral Bill." Conversion of all of "Bloom County" quickly follows; just as quick is its "deconversion" when the entire list of comic characters decides to go on strike, demanding an end to crowded conditions in their small strip in the newspaper. Other collections include Night of the Mary Kay Commandos: Featuring Smell-O-Toons and Happy Trails . In the first volume the 1988 election sees Bill the Cat and Opus the penguin (not surprisingly) beaten at the polls, while steps are taken to break failed candidate Opus's mom out of the headquarters of Mary Kay Cosmetics, where she is in peril of being used for cosmetic testing. In Happy Trails , the last of the "Bloom County" books, characters indulge in one last round of sarcasm during a theatrical "wrap" party celebrating the end of their long-running performance. In the bittersweet final strip, Opus the Penguin abandons his regular haunts and, suitcases in hand, walks off the edge of the page. "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon," Breathed was quoted as saying in Newsweek while explaining his decision to end the strip in August of 1989. "The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age even less gracefully than their creators. 'Bloom County' is retiring before the stretch marks show." Fortunately for Breathed's fans, he quickly hit the presses with a new comic strip, the weekly "Outland," which appeared in the Sunday color supplements. Although it contained a different cast of characters, the first anthology of "Outland" comics, Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect: The First Outland Collection , showed, from its very title, that "Outland" covered the same territory—and stepped on the same sets of toes—as "Bloom County" had. While Breathed ended "Outland" in 1995, he returned to comics in 2003 with his syndicated Sunday strip "Opus," featuring one of "Bloom County"'s favorite characters. The character of Opus the penguin has also made an appearance in the first of several books Breathed has written and illustrated for children. In 1991's A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story Breathed tells of the penguin's desire to use his wings the same way other birds do: to fly. Opus gets his wish in a roundabout way after his swimming skills get Santa and his sleigh full of goodies out of a lake after a piece of the sleigh's harness snaps.
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