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  The Academia Waltz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academia Waltz was Berke Breathed's first cartoon, published daily from 1978 to 1979 in The Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a student.
Two of the characters from The Academia Waltz would be resurrected for Breathed's next strip, Bloom County: Steve Dallas and Saigon John (called "Cutter John" in Bloom County).
A few Academia Waltz comics were also reprinted in the Bloom County collection Classics of Western Literature (1990).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Academia_Waltz   (298 words)

  
 Academia Waltz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Academia is a general term for the whole of highereducation and research.
The waltz is a dance in 3/4 time, done primarily in closed position, the commonest basic figure of which is a full turn in twomeasures using three steps per measure.
The waltz is sometimes assumed to be a descendant of the lavolta.
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 Caveat Lector » Academia waltz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
A moment of biographical digression: as one of my companions and I observed in email yesterday, a sizable proportion of the U Blog faculty are exiles from the sacred precincts of physical-world academia, and so far as I know, Jeff Ward and I are the only active practitioners on the roll.
I could go on at great length about the illnesses of academia, but for now I will limit myself to tying the question into the recent blogthread on binarism.
Worse still, though, are academia’s walking wounded, people like my father, people who never question the Worthy/Unworthy dichotomy.
cavlec.yarinareth.net /archives/2002/05/15/academia-waltz   (761 words)

  
 Opus (comic strip) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Opus is a Sunday-only comic strip by Berkeley Breathed.
The strip is Breathed's fourth, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland.
Opus is the title character and protagonist of the strip.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opus_(comic_strip)   (503 words)

  
 Alumni, College of Communication, UT Austin
Berke Breathed was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning in 1987 for his Bloom County strip syndicated by the Washington Post’s Writer’s Group.
Breathed, a 1980 University of Texas at Austin photojournalism graduate, began his cartooning career at The Daily Texan where he created Bloom County’s predecessor, The Academia Waltz, in the late 1970s.
Gilbert Garcia, “Bloom County’s predecessor: The Academia Waltz,” The Daily Texan, June 19,1989.
communication.utexas.edu /alumni/pulitzer/BBreathed.htm   (97 words)

  
 Berkeley Breathed, Creator of Bloom County and Outland
As a fan of Gary Trudeau’s work in Doonesbury, Berke’s Bloom County had a similar barbed outlook and style, but was less political and used more fantasy.
Academia Waltz ran in the Daily Texan of the University of Texas from 1978 to 1979.
The syndicate editors saw the cartoon work of Berkeley Breathed through two published books of Academia Waltz, and he was commissioned as their first syndicated cartoonist.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cartoonists/99565   (450 words)

  
 Off the Kuff: Penguin dreams
We are pleased to announce that we also intend to re-publish the full run of Breathed's 1978-1979 college strip ACADEMIA WALTZ, which has long been unavailable.
I've never seen the Academia Waltz stuff (rumor has it that Steve Dallas was a character), and am sorely tempted to lay out the ten bucks for a subscription.
I went to UT the whole time Academia Waltz ran and have been trying for 15 years to get a copy of it.
www.offthekuff.com /mt/archives/001829.html   (821 words)

  
 The Miata Opus Tribute Site: What's in a Name?
His career began at the University of Texas, where he created a strip called Academia Waltz.
It appeared in the University of Texas's Daily Texan and ran the distance of 658 strips during 1978 and 1979.
Berkeley published two collections of Academia Waltz, attracting the attention of the Washington Post's editors.
www.opusmiata.designlunacy.com /opus_name.html   (1067 words)

  
 Usenet
The professors I have admired in my life have generally been mavericks—but the way they *got* to be mavericks was by playing the Academia Waltz until they were tenured and respected enough that they could do whatever the hell they wanted.
I have no particular need for the "recognition of my fellow scholars”—they don’t give a damn about the things I like to do, and in all honesty, a goodly percentage of the "recognition” I’ve seen is either ass-kissing or thinly disguised jealousy.
I think he would be disappointed in me right now -- and that hurts—but he was a very wise man and he would probably admit that I don’t have much to gain by staying.
www.yarinareth.net /Dorothea/gradsch/usenet.html   (1925 words)

  
 Articles - Berkeley Breathed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
He went on to the University of Texas and became a photographer and writer for the campus newspaper The Daily Texan, where he sometimes enhanced photos and made up stories in order to make his contributions more compelling.
His first regularly published strip was Academia Waltz which appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978.
On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut, and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paralyzed Vietnam war veteran Cutter John.
www.bird-center.net /articles/Berke_Breathed   (643 words)

  
 Berke Breathed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Pens The Academia Waltz, a popular comic strip featuring Steve Dallas and Cutter John, characters who later appear in Bloom County
The Academia Waltz runs daily from 1978 to 1979, totaling 658 strips, a few of which caricature then-UT president, Peter T Flawn
The Washington Post searches for a new topical comic strip and contacts Breathed about using The Academia Waltz.
www.utexas.edu /friends/popups/spotlight_6.html   (228 words)

  
 Welcome to uComics Web Site featuring The Academia Waltz -- The Best Comic Site In The Universe!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Before Bloom County, there was Academia Waltz - Berkeley Breathed's stimulating college strip.
Since its original publication in the late 70s, Academia Waltz has been a rare and much-sought-after collector's item.
Don't waste time and money at on-line auction sites trying unsuccessfully to find tattered copies—join My Comics Page today and access every one of the original strips featured in Academia Waltz and Academia Waltz: Bowing Out.
www.ucomics.com /theacademiawaltz   (183 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Outland
Outland eventually petered out, and Breathed, unable to repeat his success, retired from comics — for the time being, at least.
Two syndicated strips (his first strip, Academia Waltz, appeared only in a single college newspaper), and one hit.
Not perfect, but a batting average of.500 is much higher than most cartoonists achieve.
www.toonopedia.com /outland.htm   (230 words)

  
 M.J.'s Comics Place   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Berkeley Breathed was a student at The University of Texas at Austin in the late 1970's, the same time I was there, and my friends and I religiously cut out the daily Academia Waltz strips from the campus newspaper, The Daily Texan, including the few the editors refused to print.
At one point, I had almost two dozen autographed copies of Breathed's first book, The Academia Waltz, but over the years I have given them all away except one.
(The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland are the intellectual property of Berkeley Breathed.)
members.aol.com /MJWombat/ToonLinks.html   (598 words)

  
 In Theory, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
I'm a big Berkeley Breathed fan from his days as cartoonist for the UT student newspaper The Daily Texan.
If you can find an old reprint of his compilation of that period called "The Academia Waltz" it is well worth the trouble.
I still say it is some of his best work ever.
www.mournival.com /2004/09/found-my-old-bloom-county-books.html   (608 words)

  
 Berke Breathed
Berke Breathed attended the University of Texas at Austin, and drew his first comic strips there.
Academia Waltz appeared only in the university's student paper, but Breathed brought a few of its characters to Bloom County when the Washington Post started publishing and syndicating it in 1980.
Bloom County featured a talking penguin named Opus.
www.nndb.com /people/277/000022211   (328 words)

  
 Waxy.org: Daily Log: New Opus Comic
posted by Lugeman on December 18, 2003 06:51 AM In case you want to read Bloom County all over again and also discover a lost Breathed comic (The Academia Waltz) head over to http://www.ucomics.com/
I have become a great fan of it and believe that it fits right in with the other greats.
I might add that Berlely Breathed's first strip, "Academia Waltz" is in reissue (as are all the "Calvin & Hobbes" strips).
www.waxy.org /archive/2003/11/24/new_opus.shtml   (5233 words)

  
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