i like him

i have berkeley breathed pictures on my checks

from editor and publisher by way of buzzflash

Berkeley Breathed On His 'Jailed Journo' Comic Strips
By E&P Staff Published: August 24, 2005 2:15 PM ET
NEW YORK On the past two Sundays, Berkeley Breathed, in his comics strip “Opus,” has chronicled the disaster that befalls the Bloom Picayune's “Scruples Boy” after he decides to protect a source for one of the paper's most scandalous stories (the mayor's sex-change operation). This leads Opus -- who has been connected to the Picayune in various capacities since 1982, first in Breathed's popular “Bloom County” -- to jail. There he encounters a hulking cellmate named Mr. Rampaige, who rails against the media for, among other reasons, its coverage since 9/11.While her name is never mentioned in the strips, the figure of jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller certainly hovers over the color panels. E&P wondered what Breathed felt about her current plight, and the inspiration for this month's strips (which are syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group). Here's what we found out.....................