Author berkeley breathed biography

American cartoonist and author (born 1957)

Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (; born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author, director, and screenwriter, known for his comic stripsBloom County, Outland, and Opus.

Bloom County earned Breathed the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987.

Early life

Born in Encino, California,^{[citation needed]} but raised in Houston, Texas, Breathed attended Westchester High School in Houston.^[1]

Cartooning career

Breathed was first published when he was hired part-time by the Austin American-Statesman to draw editorial cartoons for the newspaper.

This job was short-lived; he was dismissed shortly after one of his cartoons (about a busing order imposed on the local school system) caused outrage.^[2] His first comic strip published regularly was The Academia Waltz, which appeared in the Daily Texan, in 1978 while he was a student at the Universi