The Opus Interview

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 23, 2003 @04:59AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

Brad1138 writes "MSNBC has an interview with Opus re: his return to Sunday comics. Some interesting/funny bits of info. It was also nice to see how many people loved Bloom County/Opus, they are running a poll and currently 94% 'loved Bloom County & will read "OPUS"'." Here's another article talking about Opus's Return to the Sunday Funnies.

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Scan of the strip? by swfranklin · 2003-11-23 05:03 · Score: 2, Informative

I've been checking Usenet with no luck this morning for a scan of today's strip. My paper doesn't carry it :-(
Anyone seen the strip online?
1. Re:Scan of the strip? by Jeremy+Erwin · 2003-11-23 05:48 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  It's not available online.
  
  "Opus," a new strip by "Bloom County" and "Outland" creator Berkeley Breathed, will appear in The Washington Post on Sunday's [sic] beginning Nov. 23. The comic will be available only in newspapers.
  
  Source
Re:Opus by swfranklin · 2003-11-23 05:05 · Score: 2, Informative

Was he a puffin or a penguin?
He was considered a penguin, but more resembled a puffin physically.
Re:Opus by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-23 05:09 · Score: 2, Informative

Binkly pointed out that Opus looked more like a puffin, but Opus in turn pointed out that Binkly looked more like a carrot...
more interviews by mattOzan · 2003-11-23 05:17 · Score: 4, Informative

Breathed was also interviewed in Salon last week, and in The Onion's A.V. Club in 2001. He gets to swear in these interviews, too.
The return of Guy Berkeley Breathed by StenD · 2003-11-23 05:19 · Score: 4, Informative

The Austin American-Statesman also has a story about the return, recounting the incident with the Daily Texan which helped lead to the start of Bloom County.
Here is another interview.... by terraformer · 2003-11-23 05:21 · Score: 4, Informative

...and this one is with the man himself... ;-)

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Re:Calvin and Hobbes by Fancia · 2003-11-23 06:03 · Score: 3, Informative

You might like Ozy and Millie, which is sometimes similar to Calvin and Hobbes, though it's not too derivative. ^.~ It's become my favourite comic strip.

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Re:This must be the first time.. by ctid · 2003-11-23 06:37 · Score: 4, Informative

Opus is a leading character from a 1980s comic-strip called "Bloom County". The author of Bloom County is Berkeley Breathed. Opus is a penguin, a naive innocent in a crazy world. Arguably he has himself to blame for this, having been a tuba player in a heavy metal band called Deathtongue (later renamed to Billy and the Boingers) and twice run as a candidate for Vice President of the United States. On both occasions, his co-runner was a dead cat called Bill (he of the Boingers, and indeed the tongue).

Hope that's cleared it up for you!

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Re:Opus by Colonel+Cholling · 2003-11-23 06:40 · Score: 1, Informative

The truth is, the Monkees didn't play their own instruments for the most part.

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Re:Anyone have a list of papers carrying Opus? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-23 07:24 · Score: 1, Informative

It's in the Seattle Times, atleast.
Hey! by RedCard · 2003-11-23 07:35 · Score: 2, Informative

...his co-runner was a dead cat called Bill...

Bill wasn't dead! (just brain dead)
1. Re:Hey! by mikerich · 2003-11-23 08:50 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Bill wasn't dead! (just brain dead)
  He was - occasionally.
  He first died when his Ferrari crashed into a cactus at high speed, but thanks to the wonders of modern science he was cloned from his own tongue. Whereupon he embarked on a successful career as a Soviet spy before being jailed, executed and then exchanged for Cutter John who had landed in the USSR after his wheelchair - no, this is getting too weird...
  Welcome back Opus, now when do we get to see it in the UK? Come on America! You sent us your President last week (honestly, you really didn't have to), now send us the penguin!
  Best wishes,
  Mike.