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 ...

It's true. He is resurrecting Opus the penguin from that famous strip and giving the goofy flightless bird his very own leading role, and in so doing is resurrecting hope and humor and a bit of ...

The last strip of Opus, the beloved, large-beaked penguin, will run in about 200 newspapers nationwide Nov. 2. Opus currently is featured in The Chronicle's Sunday Datebook section. Amy Lago ...

Turns out the author of to Kill a Mockingbird was the No. 1 fan of Opus the penguin from Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County comic strip. And when he contemplated writing Opus out of the strip ...

Image by ghewgill via FlickrAfter a career spanning 3 decades in the funny pages spread across a trio of different series, Opus the existentialist penguin will shortly be no more. Creator Berkeley ...

It also gave the world a new Everybird in the sweet-natured and perpetually flustered Opus the penguin. Over the course of nearly three decades, and through successor Sunday strips Outland and ...

"That's a penguin." "Is it?" Binkley responds, whirling to examine the bow-tied blob that has waddled into the frame. "Oh dear." The next day, watching "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Opus has his ...

It took place in a small, Midwestern town called Bloom County, and there are a variety of characters, including probably the most famous which was a penguin named Opus. There were other human ...

Opus, the Sunday comic strip documenting the exploits of a big-nosed penguin by the same name, will appear for the last time Nov. 2 because creator Berkeley Breathed has decided to stop drawing it ...

Comic strip creator Berkeley Breathed tells Fresh Air's Sam Briger that a 2008 letter from author Harper Lee inspired him to re-launch his famous strip on Facebook. It's now called Bloom County 2015.