what exactly is this avatar?

[ButterflyBlood]

i've never recognized it.

[MAlibdem]

1. Some cartoon

Mallard Filmore?

[terrya]

2. Opus from "Bloom County"

[Loonman]

3. Opus

From Bloom County.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Opus!

Opus the penguin from Berkley Breathed's Bloom county, Outland, and Opus strips.

[ButterflyBlood]

5. never heard of any of those strips

how old are they?

[BOHICA06]

8. From what?

1985-95 and Opus has returned to the Sunday Papers in the last 60 days or so.

The cartoonist (Breathed) did the illustrations for Secondhand Lions

Long Live: Bill the Cat, Steve Dallas, Cutter John, Milo, Oliver Wendel Jones, The Purple Horned Snorklewacker, The Anxiety Closet, & the Banana 3000.




Edited for date. Edited for Avatar too!

[Hoosier Democrat]

6. Opus the Penguin from Bloom County!!!!

Dear Lord, I'm among heathens!!!!

If you've never read any of the Blom County books or are too young to remember the strip in newspapers, READ IT! Great stuff!

[GOPisEvil]

7. Sigh...I feel old now.

x(

[elfwitch]

9. We will be old together friend

Big smoochies to you!

[GOPisEvil]

11. Oh, I feel better now!

Smoochies help! Let us assuage ourselves with a few favorites: http://www.bloomcounty.com/favorite_strips.html

[elfwitch]

13. Got smoochies on tap fo you...

You just let me know.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Woohoo!

Where were you when you were still single dammit? ;-)

[elfwitch]

15. San Antonio...

Gotta pick up girls like me fast.
We are hard to come by.

[GOPisEvil]

16. I was there too, dammit!

How did we not run into one another? Or, maybe we did! Who knows!?

Yeah...I'm always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to the good ones. :evilfrown:

[elfwitch]

17. Hell, we went to the same school....

You still haven't told me who you are yet.
We might have met.

[GOPisEvil]

18. I just fessed up privately!

:-)

[5thGenDemocrat]

10. I want a Steve Dallas avatar

To quote Steve, "I'm young, hairy-chested and drive a Buick -- why not?"
John
Not actually any of the three -- but I still want the avatar.

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Art has no meaning for me any more

I've lost all hope for humankind...

To not recognize Opus.........

Seriously, though, as others said, you must go read the books of old comic strips - inceredibly insightful, gorgeous artwork, brililantly funny, and way political, from a mostly lefty perspective.

Berkely Breathed is also a campaigner for animal rights.

[NewHampster]

19. Opus may be found at

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com
http://www.geeklife.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=1420&CommentCount=11

[Hoosier Democrat]

20. How do you create an Avatar??

I'd really like to have one, but I'm not much of a techno-geek.

[Melsky]

23. You can't create your own here at DU

but you can pick one of the pre existing ones if you go to your profile.

I'm wondering if being able to make your own avatar will be one of the upgrades!

[Archae]

21. Now I really feel old.

I used to love this little critter and his comments on our foibles.

[BOHICA06]

24. Ahhhh to flang a fish again!!!

I still have my Equal time for Pogo book covering the '68 election. Kennedy, Nixon, Regan, Goldwater, Humphrey .... totally searing

[Archae]

25. Don't forget...

"Deck us all with Boston Charlie." :-)

[Bertha Venation]

22. That's Opus! eom