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 ...

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 ...

That announcement signals the end of Opus, the charming penguin who has entertained comics readers for nearly 30 years, starting with Bloom County. Though Breathed has retired the character before ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Opus the Penguin returns to the nation’s comic pages today. Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, who introduced Opus in the classic 1980s comic strip “Bloom County,” isn’t doing interviews.

In the US, Dimension Films has acquired the rights to develop and produce animated content based on the cartoon penguin Opus. Opus, who has already made appearances in cartoon collections and an ...

It’s no red herring. Or pickled, for that matter. Opus the cartoon penguin, chronicler of all that is true and right and aerodynamically incorrect, is returning from a self-imposed exile.