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Earlier today, the official Facebook page for Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County comic strip posted a letter purportedly from the legal team of President Donald Trump...In case anyone had their doubts that the letter is a hoax, comics journalism zine kingpin Christian Hoffer contacted the legal firm to check...it looks likely Donald Trump did not, in fact, threaten the creator of Bloom County over a Facebook meme

Beloved cartoonist Berkeley Breathed had an unusual inspiration for his latest children's book, "Flawed Dogs." No it wasn't one of the Santa Barbaran's many rescued pit bulls, but it was one of Michael Vick's infamous dogs who was set to be put down. "The book happened because I came across both a picture and a quote at about the same time -- a picture of one of Michael Vick's fight dogs. It was set to be put down, but a shelter in Utah decided to take the dog and a few others at the same time and try to rehabilitate...

A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over the weekend because this time it took a humorous swipe at Muslim fundamentalists. The Washington Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday's installment of Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamicist. The installment did not appear in the Post's print version, but it ran on WashingtonPost.com and Salon.com. The...

Sunday July 8, 2007 - Breathed weighs in with his view of "Fred" as being less than Reagenesque.

A week before Father's Day, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed did a very cartoonist thing and caused a controversy to be stirred over a comic strip that seemed to slight fathers while celebrating lesbian moms. More or less. Reaction has been swift and predictable: outrage on the right, smug contempt for the right on the left. In the middle is one happy cartoonist, who got a rise from a jaded nation. Though the message of the strip may be interpreted more than one way - either as advancing an idea or exposing a cultural phenomenon - outrage is not necessarily misplaced. For...

13 years ago, Berkley Breathed prophecied that digital photograph would be used to alter photos reliability as fact. (Of course, a lot of people did, but just play along.) Out of repsect for their copyright control, I direct you to the comic as a link: http://images.ucomics.com/comics/blm/1993/blm930822.gif And, here is a link to the web page of U Comics: http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/ You can read the lead in to this at this link: http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1993/08/15/

Today marks the long-awaited, speculated-about, unabashed return of Steve Dallas to comics pages. While he's a bit older, he certainly is no wiser, according to cartoonist Berkeley Breathed's publicist.Breathed has received hundreds of letters and e-mails requesting Steve's comeback since Opus began a year ago.