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, 8 months ago
À bas les paparazzi!
MrSulusBrain said, 8 months ago
Won’t be long now till Bill checks himself into the Betty Ford Center, finds Jesus and begins his spiritual rebirth. Personally, I can’t wait till the VH1 Behind the Music special on Billy and the Boingers!
SwimsWithSharks
said, 8 months ago
Lola please come back. All I ever wanted was a girl like you.
GreggW
said, 8 months ago
Bestiality?
Vonne Anton said, 8 months ago
Love these kinds of news stories…all questions and conjecture, with the endline, “We don’t know, but we’ll find out!” (If you didn’t know, why did you bother to say anything?)
Sir Osis of Liver said, 8 months ago
When I die, I want to reincarnate as a dead cat…
sparkle 13 said, 8 months ago
Ack ack ack ack in the third panel! Love it!