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, 9 months ago
Back off, Binkley, slowly, and let sleeping Pop lie….
Sir Osis of Liver said, 9 months ago
“Nowhere Man”, “Fool on the Hill”, “Hello, Goodbye”…
MrSulusBrain said, 9 months ago
The NRA eh…..I’d probably go something off the “Revolver” LP.
MagicFan said, 9 months ago
I haven’t heard of the NRA.
hariseldon59 said, 9 months ago
I prefer a warm puppy.
djmalloy said, 9 months ago
“Born in the USA”
morosemoose said, 9 months ago
Happiness…Bang Bang Shoot Shoot…
GreggW
said, 9 months ago
Do you fail English in high school?
GreggW
said, 9 months ago
Good thing Binkley’s American, so he’ll never see when Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin” is used to sell the Bank of Montreal’s introduction of e-banking.
BluePumpkin said, 9 months ago
@MagicFan
The NRA is the National National Rifle Association of America. For a less biased point of view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association
Vonne Anton said, 9 months ago
Rocky Racoon…went into his room….only to find Binkley’s Father…..
MrSulusBrain said, 9 months ago
@Vonne Anton
hiding behind the door…with Maxwell’s Silver Hammer?
Tacopielvr said, 9 months ago
Did you fail english in grade school? Did it occur to you that MagicFan might be from another part of the world? Your biased response was weak and does more to discredit than promote the NRA.
Travis said, 9 months ago
BRAVO!
hariseldon59 said, 9 months ago
At least it wasn’t Revolution Number 9 … number 9 …. number 9 …