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	Has the comic strip inkwell run dry?
		All of the strips were topical and cleverly written, well drawn--the type of comic strips readers would clip for their offices or refrigerators and show other people.
		All three of these strips (combining "Outland" with "Bloom County") were born during the 1980s, and none made it far past that decade.
		Syndicates have realized that comic strips are gold mines, so they tend to favor strips which imitate past successes and "play it safe" in the marketplace.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V127/N32/has-the-comic.32v.html (895 words)

	the Zoo™ -- www.zoocomic.com -- by Gabe Strine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His comic was one of the most influential strips in the last 30 years for people who wanted substance in their comics, rather than the usual fluff, but without getting browbeaten by personal politics as hard as Breathed's adversary Gary Trudeau had been doing for many years with Doonesbury.
		Comics will always have the reputation of fluff when it continues to allow the coming monstosity of a film.
		The comic that he started and continues to bear his name is now entirely drawn by unknown artists who perpetuate the idea that the strip no longer matters, so long as it appears daily and doesn't offend anyone.
	www.zoocomic.com /lennyscolumn/lenny_thefunnies.html (1199 words)

	Berkeley Breathed, Creator of Bloom County and Outland
		Ucomics.com began distributing Berkeley Breathed's famous comic duo of Opus and Bill on their website on March 17th, 2003 with hefty doses of penguin sarcasm and hairball comments to be savoured every week.
		Outland, a weird and far-fetched strip debuted as a Sunday-only with Ronald Ann plus new characters and format.
		Outland and Bloom County have been published in eleven best-selling cartoon collections with almost seven million copies in print.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/12933/99565 (442 words)

	Outland (comic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Outland was a Sunday-only comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995.
		In its earliest form, Outland had been intended to be an experimental strip for Breathed, featuring a channel for creativity in the forms of new characters (like Mortimer Mouse, based on the rejected name for Disney's Mickey Mouse) and bizarre backgrounds (many of which initially resembled those seen in Krazy Kat).
		Outland strips also appeared in the 2004 book Opus: 25 Years of His Sunday Best, which reprinted strips from Bloom County and the new Opus strip as well.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Outland_(comic) (488 words)

	Slashdoc - A brief history of comics
		The comic, drawn by Richard F. Outcault, was based on the life of Mickey Dugan, an Irish immigrant child in the city.
		Comic magazines soon followed, the first to be the Famous Funnies in 1934, and by the late 30's comic books were being produced independently of newspaper strips.
		Not only can the published comic strips be posted, but amature artists can post their artwork on webpages, wich is usually soon spread across the web as others use this art in the production of their own page.
	www.slashdoc.com /documents/34991 (3462 words)

	Conventional Wisdom: Drawing Lines In The Sand
		OUTLAND was an appropriate coda and a tonic for the days when CALVIN & HOBBES and THE FAR SIDE would be forever absent from the comic pages.
		As anyone who has ever been to a comic book convention knows, it's not uncommon for a cartoonist to draw sketches of characters that they are not personally known for drawing.
		Most popular comic characters are handled as works-for-hire, which means that the artist and writer can take any liberties they so like as long as the character itself maintains its status quo.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=619 (1402 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: An Outland-ish Flop
		Admittedly, there is a risk in reviewing a comic strip that has run fewer than a dozen times.
		"Outland" does not even integrate humor and surrealism as well as G.B. Trudeau's "Doonesbury." Breathed's "Bloom County," though funny in its commentary on 1980s culture, was basically "Doonesbury" with funny animals.
		But "Outland" looks as sketchy and hurried as the worst weeks of "Bloom County." It certainly doesn't measure up to the artistry of "Calvin and Hobbes" in one of its Sunday Spaceman Spiff strips.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=238309 (826 words)

	World of Warcraft Stratics - The Outland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The scattered wastes of Outland are all that remain of Draenor, the once beautiful homeworld of the orcs.
		Currently, Outland is home to a number of scattered draenei tribes, primitive orcs and the powerful, arcane creatures of the Nether itself.
		Perhaps the most unsettling news to come from Outland are the accounts of thunderous, savage cries issuing from somewhere deep beneath the citadel.
	wow.stratics.com /content/features/Expansions/bc/outlands.php?... (995 words)

	Famous Cartoons and Cartoonists
		Born in Tacoma, Washington, Larson was an avid reader of comics as a child.
		Bill Watterson's comic strip, "Calvin and Hobbes," is the engaging chronicle of a six-year-old's psyche.
		Bill's early comic strip attempts were cruelly greeted by rejection letters from syndicates, and he spent the first couple years after college living with his parents and with no clear job prospects.
	www.angelfire.com /comics/central1/famouscartoons.html (1412 words)

	The Washington Post Writers Group
		He was the first to come back with another after ending the original (which had nothing wrong with it in the first place).
		And he was the first to retire his second strip, declaring he was done with newspaper comics once and for all, only to start all over again.
		Outland began in 1989 with new characters paired with Bloom County’s beloved Opus the penguin.
	www.postwritersgroup.com /comics/opus/berkleybio.html (499 words)

	A Wish For Wings That Work: A Bloom County/Outland/Opus Fanlisting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Adapted from Berkely Breathed's college comic strip "Acedamia Waltz" (Steve Dallas and Cutter John were concieved for it), Bloom County was originally developed as a replacement for Doonsbury, which had switched syndicators.
		Outland: In September of 1989, Outland, a Sunday-Only strip, debuted.
		Breathed had hoped the strip would be a revivial for comic strips in newspapers and it was originally verbotten from being reproduced online - but it since has been syndicated through this medium, and there's even rumors of an Opus movie comming to the big screen.
	nasty-dress.net /bloom (1551 words)

	Outland
		It is a very rare thing indeed when a writer and director can take a well loved genre like the western, take the essence that makes it popular and apply it to a completely different genre.
		Right there is the essence of the western that code to live by, the modern embodiment of the lawman’s sacred trust.
		Normally a comic actor, Boyle owns the role of the local company man. He conveys the dismissive attitude needed to do his job yet the undercurrent of greed is always there.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /outland.htm (1096 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Outland [1981]: DVD: Sean Connery,Peter Boyle,Frances Sternhagen,James Sikking,Kika Markham,Clarke ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction.
		Outland is no classic but it offers solid suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere.
		Outland is no certainly no exception here, although there is the occasional memorable one-liner.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Outland-Sean-Connery/dp/B00004CX8J (1147 words)

	Welcome Back, Opus. - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Breathed drew the wildly popular "Bloom County" and "Outland" comic strips, which introduced the world to the naive Opus and his hairball-spitting sidekick, Bill the Cat.
		He quit drawing "Bloom County" in 1989, when the comic was running in nearly 1,300 newspapers, according to Editor and Publisher magazine.
		Shortly after that, he began drawing "Outland," a Sunday-only strip featuring many of the same characters, but retired that strip in 1995.
	www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?p=379327 (955 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Purchase Comic Strip Reprints
		The seventeenth collection of comic strips from the series follows the ongoing struggle of the slightly neurotic, well-intentioned Cathy with what her creator calls the ""four basic guilt groups""--food, love, mother, and career.
		A new selection of comic strips from the award-winning, nationally syndicated series features Cathy's latest relationship with fitness freak Alex, ten years younger than her, and other pitfalls of being a single white female.
		A collection of comic strips from the nationally syndicated cartoon follows the misadventures of the Fox family, drawn from real-life situations faced by modern kids, from baby-sitting jobs from hell to sibling rivalry on an epic scale.
	www.toonopedia.com /boutique/strips.htm (3637 words)

	Berkeley Breathed Psychology Today - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Berkeley Breathed is the Pulitzer Prize--winning creator of the Bloom County and Outland comic strips.
		Recently, he returned to the Sunday comics' page with, the strip Opus, featuring Bloom County and Outland's Opus the penguin.
		Outland started with new characters, then characters from Bloom County crept back in.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_1_37/ai_n6167259 (390 words)

	Comic Wallpapers - The Source For Comic Wallpapers
		DC Comics held a press conference this afternoon with "Justice Society of America" writer Geoff Johns and Artist Dale Eaglesham discussing the just released first issue.
		Welcome to Comic Wallpapers where you'll find the latest comic news and the most up to date comic wallpapers from the world of comics.
		The new upload facility will be added so anyone can place their own inspiring comic wallpapers to the site and new walllpapers are ready and waiting to be uploaded in the coming weeks.
	www.comicwallpapers.co.uk (769 words)

	The Opus family tree's beloved comics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Breathed's first comic strip, Academia Waltz, appeared in the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin during 1978 and '79.
		The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators.
		The final Outland strip depicts Opus the penguin as homeward bound, among his penguin kin.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/23/PKG4K33UT01.DTL (355 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Famous Comic Strip “Bloom County” to Make a Comeback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It’s the first time since creator Berkeley Breathed retired “Bloom County”; in 1989, after an almost nine-year run, that the comic strip can be accessed by fans in a non-book format and delivered by daily e-mails.
		It’s remarkable for a comic strip to continue to be so popular after so many years in retirement.
		The service, www.mycomicspage.com, allows users to read their customized comics page each day via e-mail, or on the Web.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=51966 (737 words)

	Outland (comic) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the Burning Crusade's outland adventures alone, flying mounts will definitely be a...
		The comic strip Outland was a Sunday-only resurrection of Bloom County by Berke Breathed.
		Initially, it pretended to be something else, but it soon settled down to the regular Bloom County cast.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/o/ou/outland__comic_.html (88 words)

	Bone writer Jeff Smith interviews (Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet) - Adventure Forums
		Most of the questions are understandably about the comic, therefore I'm posting it in chit chat.
		It really hit me as a comical adventure, but with an incredible suspense (the hooded one creeped the s**t out of me!!).
		He said that he in 1990 scetched the last comic in the story, the final scene, and he had worked towards that ever since.
	forums.adventuregamers.com /showthread.php?t=17572 (1365 words)

	FileRoom.org - Outland, Comic Strip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Men should pause for one moment and take another long hard look at the very thing that brings meaning to their meaningless lives." The strip then shows the woman walking away and the three male characters peeking into their underwear.
		Description of Incident: The Houston Post pulled the August 1 installment of the Outland comic strip by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, fearing it would offend readers.
		The Post substituted a previous Outland and made copies of the strip available to readers at its offices.
	www.thefileroom.org /html/227.html (179 words)

	eBay - bloom comic ..., Comics, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Opus Penguin Bloom County Comic Strip Dakin bird 8606
		COMICS Revue 19 SPIDER-MAN Bloom County STEVE CANYON
		COMICS Revue 51 SPIDER-MAN Bloom County MODESTY BLAISE
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=bloom+comic+...&krd=1 (348 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Outland
		Just one minor character from Bloom County was to be a part of the new strip.
		As popular as Bloom County had been, Outland started off with a healthy subscriber base — but its circulation eroded steadily, as readers found they couldn't get into the weirdness, and the addition of familiar characters didn't help.
		Outland eventually petered out, and Breathed, unable to repeat his success, retired from comics — for the time being, at least.
	www.toonopedia.com /outland.htm (230 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Opus No. 3: 'Bloom County's' beloved penguin is back with a new comic
		After an eight-year hiatus from newspaper comics, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed will bring his big-beaked, bigger-hearted penguin, Opus, back to life in a Sunday-only comic strip.
		In recent years, Breathed has been a critic of the trend to continually shrink the size of comic strips on newspaper comics pages.
		These are not only comic strips, says Shearer, but also works of art.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,525039315,00.html (805 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Outcomes" to "Outwitting"
		The Blank in the Comics strip collection includes a file of one or more daily comic strips related to this keyword or topic.
		Call no.: PN6728.P57K39 1985 ----------------------------------------------------- Outreach The Blank in the Comics strip collection includes a file of one or more daily comic strips related to this keyword or topic.
		114-116 in The Comics Journal, no. 185 (Mar. 1996) -- (Comicopia) -- Summary: Essay on Alex Toth and his use of fl and white, with reference to Frank Miller, Bob Hall and Mike Mignola.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/orri/outco.htm (6350 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Brief
		With less than a week to go before MELTDOWN hits the stands, the creators of this highly anticipated new comic book are getting ready to hit the road for a cross-country tour of comic shop appearances.
		Studio City, CA Wednesday, December 20: Meltdown Comics, Los Angeles, CA Saturday, December 23: Outland Station, Miami, FL Thursday, December 28: SuperHeroes Unlimited, North Miami Beach, FL Saturday, December 30: Tate’s Comics, Ft. Lauderdale, FL With more dates to be added soon in New York, Las Vegas, and elsewhere.
		The script is by Schwartz, artwork is by Wang (creator of the smash-hit indie comic "Runners"), colors by Guru-eFX, with covers by industry superstars Chris Bachalo and Greg Horn.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=9052 (627 words)

	Mountain Bikes MTB - Fuji Outland
		No, it's not a defunct comic strip, B-grade Sean Connery sci-fi flick or a place beyond the closet.
		It's my personal belief that Outland is short for "Outlandishly affordable Shimano 9-speed equipped mountain bike." And it is.
		So you can plink from one gear to it's neighbor to fine-tune your pedal speed to match your comfort level, or wail your way across a bunch of cogs when that sweet downhill you're on suddenly dips into the inevitable uphill that follows.
	www.bikesdirect.com /products/02fuji/fuji_outland.htm (282 words)

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