Re: "Opus" and Berke Breathed's illness
- From: nebusj-@xxxxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus)
- Date: 30 May 2008 13:37:20 -0400
"Jason Togyer (jt3y)" <jtogyer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
On May 29, 5:11 pm, nebu...@xxxxxxxxx (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
He's actually sick? I had thought Breathed was just doing a
Frank Cho-esque bit of ``couldn't think of a joke, I'll say I was sick
and that'll look like a joke, right?'' ... Which was why I didn't
make any comment, since _Opus_ grabbing at a non-joke-joke didn't seem
all that out of the ordinary.
Are you saying he's the boy who cried "penguin" too many times?
Well, not that he specifically had, no. In fact, I don't know
of another case in which he did say he failed to have a joke because of
some real-life reason. It's just that the comic idea of saying that
there's no joke today has been done enough times and by enough comic
strip writers that I suppose I guess whenever someone *does* say that a
real-life issue has stopped them I assume *that's* meant to be a joke.
Yeah, he has done a lot of meta-strips over the years --- and I
thought the first one of these was only (faint smile) funny, but I did
like the second one.
The second is funnier, although I have to admit again that if
I didn't know from an outside source that Breathed were actually hurt
I'd assume he was doing a (fairly good) job of building on the
'Typewriter In The Sky' view of God.
--
Joseph Nebus
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