---Do you think cartooning itself is a dying form, now that there are fewer news outlets for young cartoonists to get their start? Or will it evolve into some other form? And if so ... any clue what that is?
There'll always be great, classic cartooning. There'll also be radio. Concept rock albums. Theatrical movie dramas for intelligent adults. Little kids riding bicycles down a neighborhood street without a grown-up. Family dinner hours. Eleven-year-old girls who dress like children. Instant coffee. Buggy whips.
They'll just be much harder to find.
The very, absolute last comic strip characters destined to become true household words across America were invented 23 years ago: Calvin & Hobbes. There are and will be no more new ones.
I will miss the crinkly mass of pressed dead tree held aloft over my Caesar salad and iced tea at the corner cafe.
Opus will be where I'd like to think of him being for the rest of my life ... which will be a small surprise to many readers.
Come to think of it, I've given a good clue in this interview.
...Stories for children are a refuge from the firefight going on above the foxhole. is that the clue?
On Sunday, Nov. 2, the comic "Opus" will end. Worse yet, creator Berkeley Breathed has made it clear that the strip's namesake will, in that final strip, find his "final paradise." (Opus 10/12)
- Opus 11/2
- Where is his final resting place?
- By Berkeley Breathed Nov 2, 2008
oh! he's in Goodnight Moon. makes me cry. Goodnight Opus And goodnight air Goodnight noises everywhere
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