Opus is back! (Apologies if this is a dupe)

[mac56]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45450-2003Sep8?language=printer

After eight years away from newspapers, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is creating a new comic strip called "Opus," starring his beloved penguin of the same name.

The Washington Post Writers Group, which will syndicate the strip, is expected to officially announce Breathed's return this Sunday. The reclusive Breathed, who rarely gives interviews, could not be reached yesterday for comment.

The new strip will appear on Sundays in The Washington Post starting Nov. 23.

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At the National Cartoonists Society meeting this May, he seemed itching to return to his old broadsheet format.

"I can't say it wouldn't be appealing to bring back Opus to the Sunday pages," Breathed told those gathered, according to Editor & Publisher. "It was painful to sit through the war without a public voice."

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[JHB]

1. It's "Boondocks" that got to him...

[mac56]

2. Whatever it took -

as long as he's back.

[Lindacooks]

3. Oh hooray!!!

And Opus is my favorite character...

[Brotherjohn]

4. Bill and Opus - 2004!!

"A desperate choice for desperate times."

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Great news.

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[Love Bug]

6. YESSSS!!!!

Woo-hoo! Now, all we need is the return of Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side!

[Tripper11]

7. I love it!!!!

[mac56]

8. Maybe now would be the time for an Opus avatar.

Admins? Yoo-hoo?

[Tripper11]

9. I'l do you one or several better....

all the characters avatars....sometimes I can be in an Opus mood, sometimes after a hard weekend, Bill the Cat and then, good ol' Steve.

[Elidor]

10. Bill the Cat would be the PERFECT avatar

Bill is my alter-ego

[pansypoo53219]

11. ick poo

ack ack.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

12. Not a minute too soon!!!

It will be interesting to see what new characters he's developed over the past several years.