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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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kittenpah said, 12 months ago
He showers with his collar on.
dukedoug said, 12 months ago
Penguins got fur ?
Sisyphos said, 12 months ago
Still need more grooming, Opus! (And in this heat wave, I don’t so much fancy a “hot shower” as a tepid or even cool one….)
D-squared said, 12 months ago
More “get-ye-yonder”
Thirdguy said, 12 months ago
maybe try some hair gel?
Vonne Anton said, 12 months ago
Love that third panel! LOL!
MrSulusBrain said, 12 months ago
@Vonne Anton
About the third panel…evidently Opus is a weeble!
fishbulb239 said, 12 months ago
@MrSulusBrain
Nice.
@dukedoug: Could be fine feathers. Or feathers that haven’t come out of their “sheathing” yet. (I don’t know what the stuff is called, but when I had birds as a kid, their new feathers emerged wrapped in a coating that initially kept them as thin as a stout hair.)
dfrechet said, 12 months ago
@kittenpah
Wash and wear?
Jaylene Hake said, 12 months ago
@dukedoug
They have feathers. Fluffy feathers…
hariseldon59 said, 12 months ago
Opus sings Madonna songs in the shower?
dahawk said, 12 months ago
@fishbulb239
They started out many millions of years ago as scales.
MrSulusBrain said, 12 months ago
After another look at panel four, I think there’s a pretty good chance Opus is Don King’s love child!