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Education: University of Texas at Austin, B. Home —Santa Barbara, CA. Syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, and —; wrote and illustrated comic Bloom County, ; wrote and illustrated comic Outland, ; wrote and illustrated comic Opus, —. Also writer and illustrator of children's books. Awards: Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, for Bloom County, Comic-strip artist Berkeley Breathed found himself in the glare of publicity in when he won the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning for his comic strip Bloom County.

The controversy stemmed from the fact that his strip appeared not on the editorial page but rather on the comics page, though he used the space to comment on the issues of the day. Traditional editorial cartoonists thought the award belittled their craft. No one could argue, however, that the strip was not well-read. During its heyday Bloom County, with its motley crew of anthropomorphic prairie creatures, children, and eccentric adults, was syndicated in 1, newspapers and achieved a cult following.

The driving force behind the snicker-inducing cartoon was a big-hearted, tuba-playing, politically astute penguin named Opus, whose neurotic worldview charmed millions of readers each day. Breathed ended the strip in , then created a new one, Outland, which ran until