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, 10 months ago
Maybe Opus should concentrate more on his sousaphoning….
readerlady
said, 10 months ago
{Snerk} Sometimes the comments are sillier than the comic.
afeeney said, 10 months ago
Opus! Watch your language!
bgby4884 said, 10 months ago
How wonderful is life in South Africa today?
Vonne Anton said, 10 months ago
And every time the Reagan policies are vaunted, many say “OH, Triple Drat!”
surfstuff55 said, 10 months ago
@bgby4884
If your skin is dark, better than it was in the 80’s for sure.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 10 months ago
Poor liberals, when their hearts aren’t bleeding, their knees are jerking.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 10 months ago
@surfstuff55
Only for the 1%.
Neo Blakkrstal said, 10 months ago
@kuren444
Ronald Reagan was the best President we have had since Kennedy. And that remains true to this day. Do you honestly believe that Obama could have brought the Russians to their knees?
Travis said, 10 months ago
@Neo Blakkrstal
Bravo, Sir.
Those who denigrate him are on the side of the Soviets and other Communists.
TexTech said, 10 months ago
@Neo Blakkrstal
I see you buy that same story. By all accounts, the little Soviet ten year foray into Afghanistan did so much damage to their economy that the whole thing collapsed. (Sound a little frightningly familiar). The only reason the U.S has not is that our whole economy is much stronger. Reagan did a lot of posturing but I doubt his influence was very great or that he had anything to do with the collapse of Communism. And note, it is collapse, as from the inside, and not the defeat of communism.
Cardboard Cutout said, 10 months ago
Opus, sing Soft Kitty for us
Mitchtheone said, 10 months ago
And the shock would be to many republican party members how former President Reagan(d) would have hated the direction the republican party has gone today.
elbeck said, 10 months ago
The Repubs were fighting “dat tight-money policy at the Fed” in the Volcker era. Now they’re fighting “dat loose-money policy at the Fed” in the Bernanke era. I wish they would make up their minds.
bhinkle said, 10 months ago
The problem with Reagan was he was all about making America great, not about himself great. Unlike chucky cheese in the White House, who is all about how much of your tax money he can give out. With the way they’re giving out federal jobs these days (borderline literate qualifies) it’s amazing there are any ‘disadvantaged’ still on the dole.