BUP! I didn’t know you were a member here! I’ve been a fan of yours for a WHILE. I even sent you an email not too long ago, just to say you’ve been missed.
When you view the final panel on the website it says you can get a final message from Berke at his website. I guess he forgot to up the capacity since his website has been crashed all day.
Funny thing, actually. I’m a gigantic fan of Doonesbury (my political disagreements with Trudeau notwithstanding), and I like Bloom County, but I seem to recall from doonesbury.com’s questions page that Trudeau absolutely detests Breathed and thinks he’s an arrogant jerk. Apparently, among other things, there was a to-do with plagiarizing Peanuts. I’ll see if I can find a link.
I was just about to ask if I was the only one who got choked up when I saw the final panel. I think wife found my reaction just plain weird, rather than amusing!
I wasn’t really choked up by it, possibly because I have no experience with Goodnight Moon beyond Christopher Walken reading it to a group of terrified kids on The Simpsons. I was touched though and pleased. My guess had been that he would spend eternity in his dandelion patch.
I am sad to see Opus go and I hope Breathed starts up another strip, he is still only 51. I would love to see a Bloom County TV show or movie but I think the odds of that are very slim.
I had never heard of Goodnight Moon. Maybe I read it as a kid and don’t remember it.
I was annoyed by the Humane Society link. I’m sure they do good work, but I hate Mutts for littering my comics page with unfunny issue-advocacy, and now Breathed linked seeing the end of his cartoon to getting preached to as well.
Really kind of funny, then, that Breathe’d signoff strip for Opus was, arguably, yet another “homage”/“appropriation”/“cribbing” from someone elses work!