A striking and often unseen glimpse at the career of an enigma: a creative contradiction, he is a sentimental children's book author with a cynic's view of the world. His work here shows it all – guerrilla-prankster and romantic storyteller, scribbler and painter, thinker. This looks not at his Bloom County and Opus strips, but at his children's book paintings, fine-art work, and characters like Opus in an entirely different universe of full color, fantastical slapstick. Bloom Count eventually appeared in 1200 newspapers with a readership of 75 million. But Breathed knew when to move on, first to create Outland and Opus, then to becoming a children's author, novelist, screenwriter and film producer. This is a full-blown art book that looks at his post-comic strip career..."a magical place full of rants and raves, angst and innuendo and – almost unexpectedly – beautiful art." We like it!