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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Thirdguy said, 8 months ago
How did they dig up dirt like that?
Sisyphos said, 8 months ago
Sister Edith has gone secular?! —That’s proof enough that Bill hasn’t gone straight!
dukedoug said, 8 months ago
Bill is obviously a corrupting influence !!
Tacopielvr said, 8 months ago
Lol, I remember this arc! Lol! Quad Cities Marathon here I come! This Interstate Road Warrior gets a trophy this year for doing ALL 15 Quad Cities Marathon! Woo-hoo! Qaud Cities Marathon, the best mid size marathon anywhere! Music every mile, pretty women on every corner! Hmmm, could somebody turn up the Quad Cities thermostat Sunday? Thanks!
Sportymonk said, 8 months ago
I thought Bill was a cat but the photo shows a small boy?
Doctor Why said, 8 months ago
@Sportymonk
I suspect Bill is not her first “victim”.
MagicFan said, 8 months ago
@Sportymonk
Edith is helping somebody else.
Jaylene Hake said, 8 months ago
Breathed: “It was around this time that the Rev. Donald Wildmon started a boycott of Bloom County due my naming the Christian woman Edith Dreck. I had to explain that I had no idea that dreck meant s—t in Yiddish. I wasn’t lying. A rare moment for me…”
Sir Osis of Liver said, 8 months ago
Every soul is worth saving… wait, even the soul of this cat? and does he have a soul, to begin with?
Doctor Why said, 8 months ago
@Sir Osis of Liver
I believe it was sucked out of him by
a) a toilet plunger
b) a Dalek
c) the toilet plunger thingy on a Dalek
Horst Hrubbisch said, 8 months ago
Never knew Erskine Bowles was Bill’s legal mouthpiece.