Newspaper Comics Fans Look To Opus and Berke Breathed For Signs And Clues



Comics as apparently end-focused as yesterday's Opus cartoon should only intensfy the slight but persistent buzzing that some sort of news on the immediate fate of Berke Breathed's Sunday-only feature may be due. Opus is a more direct sequel to one of the sales and popularity juggernauts of the 1980s, Bloom County, and was the artist's third strip after the more immediate, sort-of sequel Outland. While news of the popular cartoonist and children's book author's return with a strip named after his most popular chaeracter was met with great fanfare, the specially formatted strip has not quite become the sales juggernaut and rallying factor many had figured it might.

It was mentioned back in May that Breathed suffers from a mild amount of spastic torticollis, which has already worked its way into the flurry of e-mails I've received this morning asking me if I know anything (I don't). I guess Alan Gardner has talked about the rumors recently as well.
 
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