Berkeley Breathed Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (/ˈbrɛðɨd/ BRETH-əd; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with sociopolitical issues as understood by fanciful characters (e.g., Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and through humorous analogies. Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.
Depicting cultural icons as money grubbing maniacs, ie company spokespeople and Santa Claus.
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Still drawing one panel strips of "Opus 'n Bill" for Calendars and promotional purposes. [January 2000]
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Has returned to cartooning with the Sunday-only comic strip "Opus," which features the penguin from Breathed's previous two comic strips. [November 2003]
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Was condemned by his readers in the early 1980s for producing so many cartoons making fun of Princess Diana.
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Hurt his back once in an ultralight plane accident.
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Early in his cartooning career he was accused of imitating G.B. Trudeau's series, Doonesbury.
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Pulitzer Prize, editorial cartoons (1987)
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Daughter Sophie; son Milo.
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A vegetarian.
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"Bloom County" eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world. He retired the comic on 6 August 1989.
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Was close friends with sci-fi comedy author Douglas Adams (1952-2001), as Berke's wife and Douglas both were involved in the same wild life fund (Diana Fossey's Gorilla Fund).
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The frequent subject of criticism by Donald Trump, he got revenge on the billionaire by depicting him in Bloom County as a half-cat-half-man who was obsessed with large objects.
$5 Million
