Berkeley Breathed

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and True or False.  Then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies.

• True or False?

2. A native of Houston, what high school did Breathed attend?

• Lumberport High School
• Upper Moreland High School
• Westchester High School

3. Breathed became published when he was hired part-time by the Austin American-Statesman to draw editorial cartoons for the paper. This job was short-lived due to one of his cartoons causing outrage, and he was fired shortly thereafter.

• True or False?

4. While he was a student at the University of Texas, what was his first regularly published strip, which appeared in the Daily Texan, in 1978?

5. The strip attracted the notice of the editors of a large metro newspaper, who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. What was the newspaper?

6. On December 8, 1980, what cartoon made its debut?

• Bloom County
• Opus
• Doonesbury

7. Opus earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987.

• True or False?

8. What was the Sunday-only cartoon strip he introduced in 1989?

• Outland
• Sugarland
• Fun Times

9. Since 1992, he has designed a greeting card and gift ensemble collection for American Greetings, featuring the "Bloom County" characters. Who is NOT a character in the cards?

• Opus
• Bill the Cat
• Mr. Rogers

Breathed adapted his children's book "Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big" into a short film. Originally intended to be released as a bonus with a theatrically released animated film, the movie has yet to be commercially exhibited in any format. Who is the film company?

• Universal
• TCN
• Disney

Check Your Answer

1. True
2. Westchester High School
3. True
4. Washington Post
5. Bloom County
6. False. It was Bloom County.
7. Outland
8. Mr. Rogers
9. Disney

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