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Comic Feature – Berkeley Breathed ( Opus )
Guy Berkeley “Berke” Breathed is an American cartoonist, children’s book creator, director and screenwriter, best known for comic strips Bloom County, Outland, and Opus. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987. He is only one of two cartoonists to have one a Pulitzer Prize for Bloom County, which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters and humorous analogies.
Breathed was first published when he was hired part-time by the Austin American-Statesman to draw editorial cartoons for the newspaper. This job was short-lived; he was dismissed shortly after one of his cartoons caused outrage. His first regularly published strip, Academia Waltz, appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978. The strip attracted notice from the editors of the Washington Post who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip.
On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz, including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paraplegic Vietnam war veteran Cutter John. Bloom County earned Berkeley the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until he retired the daily strip in 1989, stating, “A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators”.
He replaced this strip with the surreal Sunday-only cartoon, Outland in 1989, which featured some of the Bloom County characters, including Opus the Penguin and Bill the Cat. He ended Outland in 1995. Eight years later, Berkeley began producing the comic strip, Opus, a Sunday-only strip featuring Opus the Penguin, who was one of the iconic characters from Bloom County. He colors the cartoon himself with Adobe Photoshop.
In addition to his syndicated cartoon work, which has produced eleven best-selling cartoon collections, he has also produced seven children’s books, two of which, , were made into animated films. Berkeley’s writing has also been featured in numerous publications. In 2015 he began posting starting a cartoon entitled “Bloom County 2015” and he now posts a new comic almost daily. SOURCES: WIKIPEDIA, GRAPHIC NOVELS, FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
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Chain Reactions, Lego Land
Lego Ball Contraption
Being a Master Lego Builder can take you to some strange place and meet some interesting creative minds. In this video Beyond the Brick’s Joshua Hanlon gets a tour of the LEGO great ball contraption from Bryan Bonahoom at Brickworld Indy 2018.
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Fun Facts, Super Science
VFX Artists Shows The Scale Of The Universe
Have you ever been confused by “scientific” videos trying to explain concepts that you just don’t understand? Well we have, and that’s why we enjoyed finding this video that does a great job simplifying just how big the universe really is, and just how small our planet is.
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Cool Kids
Kids Build It And Break It
On today’s episode, Izzy and Kaiden build an enormous Balloon Cyclops while Brody and Steven create a Blow Dart Launcher to break it!
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Fun Facts, Infographics, Super Science
Interesting Infographic On Gravity
The physics behind gravity largely determines the make-up of Earth, with tides, weather formations, transport and beyond all determined by our attraction to Earth’s surface.
But, when gravity leaves us, why do we float?. What would life be without gravity?
When asked about what it feels like to walk on the moon at one-sixth of Earth’s gravity, Buzz Aldrin once described the atmosphere as being filled with “magnificent desolation”.
He explained what it felt like to take each step, saying it’s “perhaps not too far from a trampoline, but without the springiness and instability”.
When NASA’s Scott Kelly returned from almost a full year in space seemingly grew two inches while he was up there for a still unexplainable reason.
As fun as experiencing no gravity sounds and looks, there can be some unwanted side effects resulting from it. Lean about “The Science of Weightlessness” in this interesting infographic created by Security Scale Service.
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