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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Orion said, 10 months ago
Polyester is hydrocarbon based and requires drilling for oil, then transporting it and manufacturing it…cotton requires pesticides and herbicides – everything they’re wearing requires the deaths of MILLIONS of living things!
FIENDS! HEARTLESS FIENDS! I bet they bathe too, wiping out entire colonies of bacteria without a care in the world.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
Orion
simpsonfan2 said, 10 months ago
Too bad it isn’t legal to kill and eat PETA members instead of chickens, pigs, etc.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago
If I pluck such a tender and succulent fruit from yon tree, is it a sin to eat it?
jhughey said, 10 months ago
Yeah, while you are at it, watch out for those vicious white blood cells.!!
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( I think the kid needs a lobotomy)
wecatsgocomics said, 10 months ago
From Binkley’s lips, direct to D. Keith Mano’s novel The Bridge. I kid you not.
zoidknight said, 10 months ago
@simpsonfan2
Solyent Green.
zoidknight said, 10 months ago
@Sisyphos
According to those nuts under the tree, yes.
zoidknight said, 10 months ago
And this proves why Vegans and Vegetarians is the result of evolution in reverse.
Vonne Anton said, 10 months ago
What harm are those ropes doing to the tree? Yea, verily thy say unto thee, shalt thou be smote hip and thigh! Or, is that smited? Smoot? Er…something bad is gonna happen!
Thirdguy said, 10 months ago
@Sisyphos
It all depends, whose tree, and which fruit?
MrSulusBrain said, 10 months ago
@zoidknight
SOYLENT GREEN IS…….not too bad with a little ketchup!
BluePumpkin said, 10 months ago
@MrSulusBrain
Is there anything ketchup can’t fix?
MagicFan said, 10 months ago
Is your solution going to involve suicide, or would that be against policy, Michael Binkley?
1opinion said, 10 months ago
@zoidknight
“And this proves why Vegans and Vegetarians is the result of evolution in reverse.”
So much of what you write is obtuse and uninformed.
{no, I am not Vegan, but I try to eat healthy.}
DragonRydr said, 10 months ago
@simpsonfan2
P.E.T.A. = People Eating Tasty Animals. If God had not meant us to eat animals he would not have made them out of meat.