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If Bloom County were a television show, it would currently be
considered "in repeats". The strips which are running now are
old Bloom County strips which have been dusted off and re-run.

				Mike Paugh
				AT&T ISL

In article <892@hou2d.UUCP>, lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha) writes:
> *
> Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
> who is doing the strip in his name.
> The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
> but the strip has carried his signature. Is
> this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
> else "ghosting" the strip?
> Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
> just imagination?
> 
> LWS
> hou2d!lws
> *
he is.  Same guy, only papers are pulling out some of the strips that are
from several years back, I assume.  Not necessarily the same ones, either.

It looks different because artistic style changes over the years, but you
just dont notice as you go.  For example, pick up the first Garfield book, and
you will wonder who the big ugly cat is in the panels.  Characters evolve.

And yes, I've noticed too.

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> *
> Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
> who is doing the strip in his name.
> 
> The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
> but the strip has carried his signature. Is
> this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
> else "ghosting" the strip?
> 
> Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
> just imagination?
> 
> LWS
> hou2d!lws
> *

I had in fact noticed the change in art style, particularly in the
way Opus looked - in fact, I thought he might have had a nose job
again without my knowing it.  But they are obviously Burk's work,
just look at some of his earlier series and you'll see they were not
ghost written, just some strips he must have had in reserve.

How come no one ever talks about Doonesbury, anyway?  

In article <892@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha) writes:
>Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
>who is doing the strip in his name.
>
>The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
>but the strip has carried his signature. Is
>this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
>else "ghosting" the strip?
>
>Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>just imagination?

I heard he was doing the comic now with his toes.  That might be
causing the differences you notice.  Because of the inherent
difficulty, he doesn't have the time to think up new gag lines,
but instead is using the exact same punchlines as before.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

> In article <892@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha) writes:
> >Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
> >who is doing the strip in his name.
> >
> >The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
> >but the strip has carried his signature. Is
> >this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
> >else "ghosting" the strip?

They are reprinting his *very* early stuff.  All cartoonists (who last
long enough) evolve the appearance of their characters.  The very first
collection of "Peanuts" bears little resemblance to the current strip.
[They were funnier then, too ...]

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU

> In article <892@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha) writes:
> >Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
> >who is doing the strip in his name.
> >
> >The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
> >but the strip has carried his signature. Is
> >this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
> >else "ghosting" the strip?
> >
> >Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
> >just imagination?
> 
> I heard he was doing the comic now with his toes.  That might be
> causing the differences you notice.  Because of the inherent
> difficulty, he doesn't have the time to think up new gag lines,
> but instead is using the exact same punchlines as before.
> 
> ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

If you will look closely at the strips you will notice, in small print, that
says "Copyright 1982".  These are simply reprints of 4 year old strips.  (How
soon we forget!).

BTW I recently read an article that said Berke was out of the hospital and
would be starting new strips post haste.  Hopefully by next week we'll be
reading fresh new adventures of Opus and the gang (and finding out where
Cutter John is!).
-- 
-Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)

>The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
>but the strip has carried his signature. Is
>this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
>else "ghosting" the strip?
>
>Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>just imagination?


The syndicate which distributes Bloom County to your local newspaper
is issuing previously published strips (some of them several years old) 
until Breathed recovers.  He was released last week from the hospital
and is expected to return to work in a month or so.  The last of the 
pre-accident Sunday strips was run 2/23.

The most noticeable difference in the artwork appeared in a few of the
very early strips featuring Opus.  The shape of his nose was quite 
different then.  Otherwise, the artwork seems pretty stable.
-- 

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In article <150@valid.UUCP> pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) writes:
>> >Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>> >just imagination?
>> 
>> I heard he was doing the comic now with his toes.  That might be
>> causing the differences you notice.  Because of the inherent
>> difficulty, he doesn't have the time to think up new gag lines,
>> but instead is using the exact same punchlines as before.
>
>If you will look closely at the strips you will notice, in small print, that
>says "Copyright 1982".  These are simply reprints of 4 year old strips.  (How
>soon we forget!).

If you will look closely at my posting you will see that I said he "is
using the EXACT SAME punchlines as before."  How do you think I noticed?

Just to make it clear:

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Didn't Santayana say something about the second time around?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

>In article <892@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha) writes:
>Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
>who is doing the strip in his name.
>
>The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
>but the strip has carried his signature. Is
>this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
>else "ghosting" the strip?
>
>Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>just imagination?
>

Yes, the comics you see are real Breathed. Since his unfoutunate
accident, the syndicate has been reissuing his older strips. He
is reported doing fine and should be back in action soon. An amusing
story about Mr. Breathed. Since he lives here in Albuquerque, I know
this is fact:
It seems that Berke set out a couple of those pink plastic flamingos
out in his front yard. The 'Neighborhood Committee' objected strongly
to the 'eyesore' in his yard. He solved the problem by spraypainting
the flamingos a nice brown color.
Ronald C. Rosul Jr. (vc253ah)     

In article <577@ssc-vax.UUCP> arlo@ssc-vax.UUCP (James Campiche) writes:
>...
>How come no one ever talks about Doonesbury, anyway?  

    'Cause it's not funny, anymore.  Before his sabatical (sp?) his
work was liberal, but funny.  Now, it's just liberal.

    Actually, I've not read the strip in over a month, now.  I had
waited with baity breath for his return, but when it came, I was
severly disapointed.

    Now, mind you, this is just my own opinion, if you like the strip,
fine.  I just don't care for it any more.

    And to top it off, "Bloom County" had been on the first page of
the Sunday funnies, but since "Doonesbury" came back, Opus et al have
been relegated to the middle!

                                "Now, THAT is a tail!"
                                    - Oliver Wendal Jones

                                Danny
-- 
				Daniel S. Cox
				({siesmo!gatech|ihnp4!akgua}!itm!danny)

In article <12038@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@brahms.UUCP (Matthew P. Wiener) writes:
>In article <892@hou2d.UUCP> lws@hou2d.UUCP (lwsamocha) writes:
>>Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
>>who is doing the strip in his name.
>>
>>The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
>>but the strip has carried his signature. Is
>>this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
>>else "ghosting" the strip?
>>
>>Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>>just imagination?
>
>I heard he was doing the comic now with his toes.  That might be
>causing the differences you notice.  Because of the inherent
>difficulty, he doesn't have the time to think up new gag lines,
>but instead is using the exact same punchlines as before.
>
>ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720

No, no, no!!!  If any of you are true fanatics ("Death to all fanatics!"
I believe Hassan i Sabbah once said) you would have noticed that they are
RE-RUNNING OLD STRIPS!!!
						Carl Greenberg

I disagree with a previous poster's comment that Trudeau now does "just"
liberal cartoons.  Consider this recent strip (pinned to my bulletin board):

    Rev. Sloane:   
       "So you have a family in New York.  That's good.  That could be helpful.
	    Now, why did you flee to America?"
    Refugee: "To escape political repression in Nicaragua."
    Rev. Sloane:
       "You mean, El Salvador.  To escape political repression in El Salvador."
    Refugee:  "No, Nicaragua."
    Rev. Sloane:
       "{sigh}  That's a problem.  My funding comes from liberation theologians.
        Nicaragua is supposed to be free now."
    Refugee:  "Ok, El Salvador."
    Rev. Sloane (smiling):   "El Salvador, eh?  You poor devil!"


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-- Phil Pfeiffer

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(608) 263-7308

In article <577@ssc-vax.UUCP> arlo@ssc-vax.UUCP (James Campiche) writes:
>> *
>> Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
>> who is doing the strip in his name.
>> 

I thought that people would have realized that before he restarted doing it,
the comic has been repeats.

>> Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>> just imagination?
>> 

What happens to many artists is that as they draw a particular character(Opus)
they like to experimant or they grow tired of drawing a character a particular
way. In Charles Schultz case, his characters grew in talking so he made them
grow in looks also.

>
>How come no one ever talks about Doonesbury, anyway?  

You may not have been around when he wanted to stop doing it, but at that time
there was a great deal of talking. It seems that it takes extremes to make
people want to talk about some things.


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