Big Frickin' Sighing YEAH

[filkertom]

As of today, Salon.com brings us Berkeley Breathed's Opus. In a size big enough to properly read and everything.

Comments

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Thanks for the heads up.

Does he still draw my hero, Steve Dallas?

Forget the three R's, let's talk about the three B's!

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

No prob. Steve was in there just a few weeks ago, I believe.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Oh good. Hopefully he hasn't been exposed to the Gephardization ray again.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I was getting eyestrain and headaches from trying to read the WaPo's online -- which makes it fit with the rest of the paper perfectly. :-)

[moony]

Bloom County is how I learned to read.

(Explains a lot, I think.)

[madmanotl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I had no idea he was still active.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Never stopped, and has still got it. :)

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Excuse me. I've lost my marbles.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

My local paper (The Boston Globe) carried Opus -- on the first page of the Sunday comics! (Where "Cicero's Cat" used to run).

Another advantage of living in the bluest state.

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

Sometimes our tastes run together, sometimes they diverge.

I loved Bloom County.

I didn't particularly care for Outlands.

I think Opus is another step down.

Oh, he still gets in a good one every now and then. But as far as I'm concerned it doesn't deserve the prime space it holds in our local Sunday Funnies section (front page above the fold).

But don't let me rain on your parade. You like it, it's good news for you, so enjoy. :)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Not raining on anybody's parade -- I'm good. :) I will point out that the three strips all do very different things. Bloom County was, in its own way, Doonesbury with funny animals. Outlands was a stretch in a very different creative direction, and what it reminded me of most was Odd Bodkins by Dan O'Neill. Opus is also a different strip, almost a hal-page sequential editorial cartoon... except not.

Not to your taste, I understand. I've got several strips like that, including a few that a lot of people love and keep telling me to read dammit. ;)

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I did not know about this. Yeah, the Salon is posting it in a very readable size. Thanks for the pointer!!

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

And as I posted over on Salon (and I hope he reads it) I just wish he'd resurrect the only animated Opus piece ever done, the obscure and out of print "A Wish for Wings That Work." My friend Dr. Toon claimed it was his favorite Christmas animation ever, and it's nearly unavailable.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

It's a great piece, too. "ALBATROSS! SUCK UP AN ALBATROSS!"