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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. The title Bloom County also first appeared in The Daily Texan in 1980.
Breathed retired Bloom County in 1989. "Opus" was launched in November 2003.
His creative works also include Outland (1989-95), more than a dozen books and a children’s video.
Source: The Complete Marquis Who’s Who Biographies. Gilbert Garcia, “Bloom County’s predecessor: The Academia Waltz,” The Daily Texan, June 19,1989.