{"id":3376,"date":"2008-11-03T01:03:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2008-11-03T01:03:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:03:18","slug":"goodnight-opus-sweet-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/11\/03\/goodnight-opus-sweet-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodnight, Opus — sweet dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a few comic strips that stand out in my mind over the years. The first is Doonesbury<\/em>, for obvious reasons — brilliant social commentary and wit — followed closely by Calvin & Hobbes<\/em>, and then Berke Breathed<\/a>‘s Bloom County<\/em>. I still have a bunch of the collected Bloom County<\/em> strips, and can recall many a Christmas morning spent enjoying them after getting one under the tree. The strip ended in 1998, followed by a related comic called Outland<\/em> (which I didn’t like as much) and then a Sunday-only strip featuring Opus the penguin all by himself. Now Breathed has ended that one too, with a single panel<\/a> showing his anti-hero snuggled in bed in the children’s book Goodnight Moon<\/em>. It’s a fitting end for a true innocent like Opus, one of the great comic characters of our time. Salon has an interview with the artist<\/a>, who says that he decided to end it because his anger at the political situation in the U.S. was bleeding through into the strip.<\/p>\n

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There are a few comic strips that stand out in my mind over the years. The first is Doonesbury, for obvious reasons — brilliant social commentary and wit — followed closely by Calvin & Hobbes, and then Berke Breathed‘s Bloom County. I still have a bunch of the collected Bloom County strips, and can recall … <\/p>\n

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