After eight years away from newspapers, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is creating a new comic strip called "Opus," starring his beloved penguin of the same name. The ...

OK so maybe "Rhymes with Orange" is occasionally cute and "Get Fuzzy" has a nice dry sardonic bite and of course "Boondocks" is the wonderfully bitter non-PC lightning rod du jour and some people ...

Opus, the Sunday comic strip documenting the exploits of a big-nosed penguin by the same name, will appear for the last time Nov. 2 because creator Berkeley Breathed has decided to stop drawing it, ...

Opus, the oldest Humboldt penguin in the 15-penguin colony at the Aquarium of Niagara, was euthanized Tuesday at age 32. That's nearly twice the 17-year median life expectancy for a Humboldt ...

The penguin is mightier than the sword "Bloom County" cartoonist Berkeley Breathed talks about bringing Opus back to the nation's comics page to rip Garfield (and maybe George Bush) a new one.

Image by ghewgill via FlickrAfter a career spanning 3 decades in the funny pages spread across a trio of different series, Opus the existentialist penguin will shortly be no more. Creator Berkeley ...

Turns out the author of to Kill a Mockingbird was the No. 1 fan of Opus the penguin from Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County comic strip. And when he contemplated writing Opus out of the strip, ...

'Bloom County' And Opus The Penguin Return After A 25-Year Hiatus Comic strip creator Berkeley Breathed tells Fresh Air's Sam Briger that a 2008 letter from author Harper Lee inspired him to re ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in Sunday comics pages after nearly 30 years because he wants to save his strip's main character, Opus, from being ...

Comic strip creator Berkeley Breathed tells Fresh Air's Sam Briger that a 2008 letter from author Harper Lee inspired him to re-launch his famous strip on Facebook. It's now called Bloom County 2015.