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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Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
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Sisyphos said, about 3 years ago
Teleprompter problems evidently have a long history. Anyway, I endorse the policy of ”Piffoo blaboo”!
ejcapulet said, about 3 years ago
And I totally agree with Mipt Speeb.
Jo Jo said, about 3 years ago
I knew I should have kept up with my Esperanto studies.
Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם)
said, about 3 years ago
Wow. that’s the most coherent political speech I’ve heard since the King of Id gave his last one, earlier this year. (He managed to use English words, however.)
Esperanto should be so Jello-like. It’s so over-regularized in its grammar and euphonics that it’s no wonder it never really caught on as a working language. Klingon will catch on as a world language before Esperanto will.
Offhand I’d say Opus was reciting Vogon poetry. You know, the third worst poetry in the Universe, according to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy… :))
“Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!”
freeholder1 said, about 3 years ago
Or Bush and his teleprompter addiction. Or Palin and her hand addiction. Or Reagan or any president since the thing was invented. Obama probably uses it more since he’s concerned with actually making sure he uses the language correctly. He gets misquoted enough as it is.
Whatroughbeast said, about 3 years ago
Or O wants to make sure his current lie is coherent for the snooze media.
gillbillvolume1 said, about 3 years ago
“You guys are truly stupid!”
Hay I bet he was using a teleprompter for that comment full of innanity ! Don’t get ticked at us because your elected high mucky muck can’t memorize his long winded rhetoric it just means hes (gasp!!!) human.. and not the next coming of the messiah.
GLBRBT BLABT TO the PEOPLE !
SherlockWatson said, about 3 years ago
And let’s not forget how Ronnie would stop talking every time Nancy drank a glass of water.
As for teleprompter hijinks, has anyone here seen the Pinky and the Brain episode “The Pink Candidate”?
gillbillvolume1 said, about 3 years ago
Don’t remember that one but I do reall the episode Meet John Brain where our erstwhile candidate had some teleprompter issues while trying to mesmerize the Voters ..lol
wittyvegan said, about 3 years ago
When Reagan used a teleprompter it was ok. This is different with Obama because….
Can somebody help me with that?
x_Tech
said, almost 3 years ago
Too bad Opus didn’t the Sarah Palin Method, then he could just wing it.