Opus : 25 years of his Sunday best / Berkeley Breathed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Breathed, Berke.

Contributor:

Breathed, Berke.

Standardized Title:

Bloom County. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Opus : twenty-five years of his Sunday best

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Co., [2004]

Summary:

- The return of Berkeley Breathed to the funny papers was the biggest launch in comics history. Opus debuted in 160 newspapers nationwide with a total circulation of 23.5 million readers.- One of America's most popular illustrators, Berkeley Breathed won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. His comic strips Bloom County and Outland ran for a total of 14 years in more than 1,000 newspapers around the world, and his books of collected strips have been perennial bestsellers.- Breathed's last three Outland books netted nearly 500,000 copies. His two previous Bloom County compendium collections netted over one million copies.- Breathed has stayed on the radar screen of fans and booksellers alike with his popular children's books, often reprising Bloom Country characters.- Breathed's latest illustrated storybook, Flawed Dogs, released in Fall 2003, has sold over 55,000 copies to date.

Notes:

Selections from the Bloom County, Outland, and Opus comic strips.

Related Work:

Breathed, Berke. Outland. Selections

Breathed, Berke. Opus. Selections.

ISBN:

0316159948

OCLC:

57652634