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I like this one:
http://www.berkeleybreathed.co...
According to the New York Times, comic-strip artist Bill Waterson has announced that he is coming out of retirement to work on a collaborative strip with Bloom County's Berke Breathed, the strip to be titled "Calvin County", and featuring characters from both strips, with political commentary.
The New York Times calls this the "Time Warner/AOL merger of the comic world".

Perhaps it is best to enjoy the sweetness that was Calvin and Hobbes, and the bittersweet way it went out. Berkeley Breathed ended Bloom County after a similar run (time wise), but took many of the characters into a new strip - Outland. I don't think that was necessarily always for the best.

Berkeley Breathed - Cartooning career
 

Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning during 1987.[5] The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until Breathed retired the daily strip in 1989, stating that he wanted to terminate the strip while it was still popular. At that time, he said, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators".[6]

Perhaps it is best to enjoy the sweetness that was Calvin and Hobbes, and the bittersweet way it went out. Berkeley Breathed ended Bloom County after a similar run (time wise), but took many of the characters into a new strip - Outland. I don't think that was necessarily always for the best.

Berkeley Breathed - Cartooning career
 

Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning during 1987.[5] The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until Breathed retired the daily strip in 1989, stating that he wanted to terminate the strip while it was still popular. At that time, he said, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators".[6]

Berkeley Breathed did that. After dropping Bloom County, he came back intermittently with Outland and some books. Aside from a couple of strips, he never really caught his previous edge and wit. But I love his children's books.

... I've lost my marbles.

Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts.

you are a sad, sad little man..... i pity you.

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/Favorite_Strips_Full.asp?ID=11

if you can't find the humor in that, you have a serious problem.

At first I thought it said Outland MMO... Oh well.

Here's an illustration of the spacecraft running Linux! I can't get Netcraft to confirm it, though. All I get from them is "In Soviet Russia, spacecraft launches YOU!" But imagine a beowolf... sorry, never mind. I'll go take my meds and be quiet now.

Somehow the new AT&T doesn't seem a whole lot different than the old AT&T. They are like the T1000 from T2. It gets chopped up but re-forms. I remember an old cartoon, a Bloom County, I think, that showed the AT&T symbol and they screamed "Death Star!"

That's nothing. Imagine the mixed feelings some of us would have if this guy and Washington Post Writers Group sued Linux distros and Linus over the penguin. Or the estate of Charles M. Schulz sued over the name 'Linus' and confusion with 'Linux'. Yeah, SCO is going down, but these cartoon characters are represent a serious threat.

"Where's the Kaboom? There's supposed to be an earthshattering Kaboom!"

The "recycled idea" was Outland. He started off with a lot of weird characters and strips, and then slowly brought it back to something close to Outland again. The series starts in the book "Politically, Fashionably and Aerodynamically Incorrect". See here.

I grew up on that stuff. Funny as hell, and definately Aerodynamically Incorrect. (although the book flew better than the penguin did...)

Straight from the author. [berkeleybreathed.com]

Who took first? Oliver Wendell Jones?

And for anyone that wants to check for themselves, go here . It's the fourth one down... --Arcum

Wings on space craft are essentially a burden.

A certain flightless waterfowl might agree.

Chip H.

That link helped me out a lot! Daisy = Linux. Now I know why I always wanted to see Tux in a high cut pair of short shorts!!!

Tux has the same nice round cheeks that Opus had... Does he hail from Bloom County by any chance?

Berke did a toon while in college -- this is where Steve Dallas, among others, first appeared -- called The Academia Waltz . He considers it to be a bit of a misadventure, a sort of "growing pains" thing, I think (though I cannot speak for the man) but DAMN it would be nice to see all of those released.

THIS IS A HINT, BERKE.

And while I hesitate to say this, lest the final remnants of the good ones get scooped up, I should mention that Berke gave 2 years worth of original toons to his mom to put up for sale.

We really need him to start drawing again. Our current presendent could supply him with material for years. Especially at the hands of Ronald-Ann [*cough] and Milo.

One can be found on his official website.

And here's the other one (younger slashdot readers may not know about Reagan's infamous microphone test which probably inspired this strip).