{"id":60,"date":"2007-06-06T00:31:39","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T00:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=23&blogId=1"},"modified":"2007-06-06T00:31:39","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T00:31:39","slug":"the-penguin-is-mightier-than-the-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fudebakudo.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/the-penguin-is-mightier-than-the-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"The Penguin is Mightier than the Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to post this link to an interview with Berkeley Breathed<\/a> on Salon for two reasons. Firstly, it has such a fantastic strap line (see myths<\/a> if you are not familiar with Fudebakudo's "The Pen is Mightier . . ." motto). Secondly, I loved Breathed's Bloom County<\/a><\/em> cartoon strip when it appeared in the 80s, and the interview is interesting if you're into cartooning (which of course I am). Although the Salon piece is actually from 2003 (yes, that's a long time ago already), My Comics Page<\/a> recently started republishing Bloom County<\/em> online to subscribers. <\/p>\n

Fudebakudo's first exposure to the general public was in the now long-defunct UK paper The Cartoonist<\/em>. In the interview, Breathed talks about how he was able to insist that he got a whole half-page space in the newspapers for his recent work Opus<\/em>. The great thing about The Cartoonist<\/em> was that, being a broadsheet devoted to the form, it was very generous with space, so those early Fudebakudo drawings were actually big enough to read at arm's length. I also know that some people kept them because I've met someone who showed me one of the early editions (with the Hokikoki Kata on the back page,  I think). <\/p>\n

If that was too much about cartooning and not enough about penguins, here is the almost obigatory link to penguins doing aikido<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to post this link to an interview with Berkeley Breathed on Salon for two reasons. Firstly, it has such a fantastic strap line (see myths if you are not familiar with Fudebakudo's "The Pen is Mightier . . ." motto). Secondly, I loved Breathed's Bloom County cartoon strip when it appeared in the 80s, and the interview … <\/p>\n

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