Berkeley Breathed CartoonCollection 1978-1987

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Berkeley Breathed CartoonCollection 1978-1987

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01226/01226-P.html

Scrapbook containingcartoons by and articles about cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, creator of thecomic strips "Academia Waltz" and "Bloom County."

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Breathed, Berke

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Berkeley Breathed (1957- ) is a cartoonist and children’s book author and illustrator. Breathed’s first comic strip, “Academia Waltz,” debuted in 1978 in the Daily Texan, while he was a student at the University of Texas. In 1980, Breathed was recruited by the Washington Post, and he began publishing “Bloom County,” his best-known comic strip. Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. After retiring “Bloom County” in 1989, he produced the comic strips “Outland” (1989-1995...