original comic Bloom County focused on his quest to find her). Eight years later, Breathed abandoned retirement and picked up where Outland had left off. The result was the Sunday-only reunion strip, Opus. Recurring characters Ronald-Ann Smith Mortimer Mouse Tim W. Forty Opus the Penguin Bill the Cat Milquetoast the Cockroach Truffles the Pig Oliver Wendell Jones Michael Binkley Steve Dallas The Kiwi The Ducks The Chicken Reprints Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect (1992) His Kisses are Dreamy...but Those Hairballs Down my Cleavage...! (1994) One Last Little Peek, 1980-1995: The Final Strips, the Special Hits, the Inside Tips (1995) Outland: The Complete Library – Sunday Comics: 1989-1995 (2012) Many Outland strips have never been reprinted in color, though all appeared in black & white in Comics Revue magazine. Outland strips also appeared in the 2004 book Opus: 25 Years of His Sunday Best, which reprinted strips from Bloom County and the new Opus strip as well. The whole output of Outland was collected by The Library of American Comics in their series, Bloom County: The Complete Library in 2012. References External links Berkeley Breathed's website Bloom County 1989 comics debuts 1995 comics endings American comic strips Satirical comics Gag-a-day comics Comics spin-offs Comics about cats Comics about mice and rats Comics about penguins Comics about animals Fictional mice and rats Fictional penguins Works by Berkeley Breathed