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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Sisyphos said, 11 months ago
Yikes! Back to the past! Please!
ninetoes said, 11 months ago
Almost as if Mr. Breathed foresaw Lambo becoming part of Volkswagen Group.
Thirdguy said, 11 months ago
“Rambo”?
MrSulusBrain said, 11 months ago
It gets worse Binkley old pal. Just wait till you meet her divorce lawyer “Ivan the Terrible”.
BluePumpkin said, 11 months ago
There’s a quote running around somewhere on Pinterest that essentially asks “what would the child you used to be think of the adult you are now?” Considering I wanted to be a super hero when I was little, I think it’d be pretty damn disappointing . . . unless getting a tiny dog to stop in the middle of it’s tracks before weeing on the floor with my voice is a super power . . .
rejoiceitellyourejoice said, 11 months ago
Such is existence, something always wets on you, into everyone’s life a little rain must fail. God causes the sun to rise on the just and the unjust.
gaebie said, 11 months ago
Welcome to the 99% little Binkley
SSRISNRI2 said, 11 months ago
BluePumpkin – A number of years ago I was introduced to an interesting letter writing exercise. The first letter was from you as a child to you as an adult. The second was the response from the adult to the child. Interesting, like I say.
Stephen Gilberg
said, 11 months ago
I don’t want to see my future self unless I can change that future.
fishbulb239 said, 11 months ago
Uh-oh. I just came to the realization that I can actually relate to Binkley now. I definitely found today’s strip to be a lot more funny when I first saw it than I do now. Yikes!
dtidrow
said, 11 months ago
The really funny part is that VW owns Lamborghini now.