Berkeley Breathed Biography

Began his art career in High School when he drew a headless spaceman outside his ship and then spat read paint where the head should have been causing the illusion of an explosion and named it Gesundheit. Went on to draw filler cartoons for his local newspaper and got his editor's front lawn vandalized when he drew a cartoon called Honky Trek a ripoff of the then-new Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
After the strip ran crazed Trek fans hanged a dummy from the editor's elm tree in his front lawn with the cartoon stuck in its chest with an arrow. In the early 80's he began drawing Bloom County a political satire for college newspapers. The racy cartoons often focusing on swinging lawer Steve Dallas and an unamed elderly woman gained a cult following and soon became syndicated. The strip became the subject of a nation wide cult following and sparked a mass marketing campaign. Nation wide recognition came to Breathed in the mid 80s with his creation of Opus an insecure penguin who reflected the political conscience of America.
Opus became a pop culture icon of the 80's with dolls cartoons action figures telephones and books all dedicated to him. Breathed furthered his fame with his subsequent creation of Bill the Cat a Garfield ripoff who was the exact oppisite of Opus in that he represented the scum of Americ a- Bill was a drug addicted alchohol chugging chain smoking rocker who had been in and out of detox.

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