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From: joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The author of Bloom County
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 09:35:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 09:35:09 1985
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> I am an avid reader of the strip (the Yech-o strip is hanging on my office
> door).  The author spells his name Berke Breathed...or would it be more 
> appropriate to call him the artist????
> 

by a sideline I think Berke is short for  Berkeley.  I  think  calling
him  the  artist  would be misleading, since some strips have a writer
and an artist, for instance, Millar/Hinds for Tank Macnamara.  I think
that  author  is  okay,  but not perfect.  Other terms such creator or
producer, could have misleading connotations.  You would probably have
to  call  him  the Writer/Artist if you wanted to be sure, but that is
rather clumsy.