Most people would probably agree that the three greatest newspaper comic strip artists from around 1980 to the present would be Berkeley Breathed, Gary Larson, and Bill Watterson. All had their own unique style and sense of humor. And all retired at the top of their game in the mid-1990’s.

As we reported last week, Breathed (who won the Pulitzer Prize for Bloom County), is back with a much more stylized strip based on one of his most popular characters, Opus. He gave a rare online interview to the Washington Post recently. He mentioned, in response to a question about whether the strip was just being launched as a promotional vehicle for the upcoming Opus movie, that “an Opus movie is years away. If I was out to promote that with the new strip, I could improve my timing”. He also stated that the previous made-for-TV Opus movie A Wish for Wings That Work belongs in “the rubbish pail. We can do better than that and we will with an eventual Opus film”.

Gary Larson revisits The Far Side on MSNBC’s website where he discusses his love of jazz guitar, how it feels to have a butterfly and a biting louse named after you, and his new 20 pound anthology featuring more than 4,000 Far Side cartoons.

CleaveScene.com tries to take a look at the life of Bill Watterson, the reclusive creator of Calvin and Hobbes. The in-depth article looks at how Calvin and Hobbes finally reached newspapers after five years of rejections, what Watterson has been up to since his retirement (as far as anyone can tell), and why he doesn’t sue the maker of those bumper stickers of Calvin urinating on car logos!