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Berke Breathed Interview in The Onion
Hobart writes "Berke Breathed, author of Bloom County has granted an interview to Tasha Robinson of the The Onion's AV Club. This is the second interview I've seen in six months (previous interview link) after the six years of silence since the end of Outland. He even calls for volunteers to help with his site! ;)"
While you're at it, Berke, how 'bout inventing a word for dyed-in-the-wool liberals who sound ready to join a holy crusade to convince people that they aren't so liberal after all, they're really just libertarians at heart. You know, like you and Bill Maher.
And just between the two of us, would you mind giving the Elvis references a hiatus until you figure out a way to remove from humanity's memory banks that completely unfunny and untouching dreck you called "The Outlands?" Thanks.
Yeah, yeah, you think Peanuts was funnier than Bloom County. No doubt you think Leave it to Beaver and Ozzie and Harriet were laugh riots too, and think Norman Rockwell was a great artist. I'll take biting sarcasm over stale 1950's nostalgia any day.
Is it just me, or does Breathed come off as a bit of a jerk in that interview?
He started drawing poorly after Penguin Dreams, but he hit bottom by the end. Go back and look at your Happy Trails collection. Remove the booger jokes and the Donald Trump jokes, and you're left with nuthin'.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.