The Prince is leaving

While DOONESBURY is considered the KING of political and social comic stripes...OPUS by BERKELEY BREATHED can easy be considered the Crown Prince....and I guess it's better to lose the Prince than it is to lose the King.

By NAFEESA SYEED, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 8, 7:05 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in Sunday comics pages after nearly 30 years because he wants to save his strips main character, Opus, from being dragged down in the current political climate.

As an added bonus to the ending of the strip Mr. Breathed is offering a contest to determine where his Penguin will end up. Go to www. BERKELEYBREATHED.com and try to win $10,000 dollars.

The Opus strip only appears on Sunday and for years I simply read one strip....THE KING....

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau.

Trudeau has been running, for over a week, the lobbyists who work for John McCain, who in turn claims he has no connection to Lobbyists...and continues to amaze me with its insight.

Many times over the years Doonesbury has revealed something that appears in the news after it appears in his comic strip.

OPUS on the other hand seems to interpret moods and temperament of the general public in ways that I always found quite...spot on.

UNFORTUNATELY I'VE ONLY BEEN READING THE OPUS STRIP FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS and that is due to the elitist attitude I had regarding Doonesbury.

I DON'T READ COMIC STRIPS.....I READ DOONESBURY AND THEN PROCEED TO THE REST OF THE PAPER.

DISCOVERING OPUS WAS STRICTLY AN ACCIDENT AND ONE OF THOSE ACCIDENTS THAT ENHANCED MY SUNDAY MORNINGS.

Thank you Mr. Breathed for the wonderful artwork and smart interpretations of what a certain segment of the American population...feels and thinks about the politics in Washington.

I suspect we will see more of you in a different format....and I apologise for never having read Bloom County....but I only read the King for years and years and years...

....and when Mr. Trudeau retires that will most likely end my interest in comic stripes which appear in the newspaper.

NOW GRAPHIC NOVELS.....THAT'S ANOTHER STORY!

WATCHMAN IS BEING MADE INTO A MOVIE AND

ALAN MOORE IS A TRUE ORIGINAL ICON IN THE WORLD OF GRAPHIC NOVELS...and I'm not really sure they can make a movie of Watchman and do it justice....but anything is better than nothing.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ART....and OPUS was beautifully constructed and will be sorely missed.

GOODBYE LITTLE GUY AND HAVE A GREAT RETIREMENT ON THE EXOCTIC ISLAND PARADISE OF.....???????????

Michael Timothy McAlevey