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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surfstuff55 said, 11 months ago
Oh well, too bad that’s not the POTUS we got in 07
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago
It’s like Orwell’s 1984: what was the far future when he wrote is now the distant past. It’s a killer perspective!
Bob
said, 11 months ago
Plus it looks like I’ll end up paying some deadbeats “it; not a tax”
dukedoug said, 11 months ago
@surfstuff55
Remember this is pre-“Governator”.
James
said, 11 months ago
Almost as strange how things actually turned out.
D-squared said, 11 months ago
@RDT64
Get over it! You lost, it’s legal, it’s staying!
sdebarr said, 11 months ago
@dukedoug
And pre-Senator Franken! And governor Jesse “the body”. And probably Rep. Bono
sdebarr said, 11 months ago
I forgot Congressman Gopher from the Love Boat. Geez, truth is stranger than the comics
TheIrishInquisition said, 11 months ago
@RDT64
I don’t think that’s what surfstuff meant. Oabama wasn’t elected in 2007. Do learn to count.
Kneejrk said, 11 months ago
Forget President Springsteen – I want self-tying shoelaces! Mine are loose now.
MrSulusBrain said, 11 months ago
@Kneejrk
Meet your new best friend……Velcro!
GreggW
said, 11 months ago
I’m guessing this was drawn in the year George Will wrote in praise of Spingsteen? Funny how some professional mossbacks are still doing it.
Tacopielvr said, 11 months ago
@D-squared
THANK YOU!!!
Vonne Anton said, 11 months ago
…and then the Boss told us all to go “Dancing in the Dark.” Perhaps a solution for the doldrums today. Wise man, that Springsteen fella.
morosemoose said, 11 months ago
@RDT64
No 2007 was “we’ve found WMD…or not.”