Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip that dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies.
Creator Berkeley Breathed's first regularly published strip, Academia Waltz, appeared in the Daily Texan in 1978. The strip attracted notice from the editors of the Washington Post who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. On December 8, 1980, Bloom County made its debut and featured some of the characters from Academia Waltz, including former frat-boy Steve Dallas and the paraplegic Vietnam War veteran Cutter John.
Bloom County earned Berkeley the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. The strip eventually appeared in over 1,200 newspapers around the world until he retired the daily strip in 1989, stating, "A good comic strip is no more eternal than a ripe melon. The ugly truth is that in most cases, comics age less gracefully than their creators". The comic continues in recirculation on GoComics!
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Bliss by Harry Bliss
Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
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Joe Minotaur said, almost 4 years ago
This will not end, period.
Sisyphos said, almost 4 years ago
But…what if Darth Dallas is your father, Luke Binkleywalker? The Force be with you! Quest on!
StrangeTikiGod said, almost 4 years ago
Oh but wait…it gets better! And how we’ll wish Binkley actually followed through, given what we got in Episodes I-III…
Ray C said, almost 4 years ago
Strange: I’d say his follow-through looks pretty good in panel 3!
ana_demeter said, almost 4 years ago
There’s a hilarious BC on Yahell! http://news.yahoo.com/comics/bloomcounty;ylt=AioP0sY2sjYDv8l475Xhh7lcLQF
jmworacle said, almost 4 years ago
Nothing wrong seeing Geena Davis in her underwear………
Hoomi said, almost 4 years ago
I remember this sequence from when it first ran in the local paper. It’s still fun all these years later.
okeedoekee said, almost 4 years ago
You go Binkleywalker!
Jello-08 said, almost 4 years ago
Hey… Tootsie was pretty funny twisted but funny
jefelito5150 said, almost 4 years ago
HEY! I’m part of the Evil Cynical Empire!!
Robotkat said, almost 4 years ago
@jmworacle
That’s probably the one reason why Steve would rather watch it.
okeedoekee said, almost 4 years ago
What movie has Geena Davis in her underwear?
jrbj said, almost 4 years ago
It strikes me that if there were more Jedi Knights in the world [or at least people who employed Binkleywalker’s tactics] and less wuss, political correctness we’d be living in a much, much better world. So far as heavy breathing is concerned, OldHipster, it all depends on who you are with.
SherlockWatson said, almost 4 years ago
So Steve calls the movies violent and anti-intellectual, and Binkley responds, not with a well-reasoned argument, but with decapitation.
Who won here?
JP Steve
said, almost 4 years ago
We did!