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
A rotten tomato by any other name smells the same….
Brian K
said, 8 months ago
He’s a garbage man but in an appropriate way
dukedoug said, 8 months ago
Love the dust mask on the schnoz …
James
said, 8 months ago
I wonder what the President calls Iranian (nuclear) weapons now?
bgby4884 said, 8 months ago
It wasn’t a terrorist attack at the embassy! It was just a random demonstration gone bad!
MrSulusBrain said, 8 months ago
Sorry Mr. Opus but no self-respecting “sanitation engineer” would use a fancy boy word like “artisian”.
Richard Roush said, 8 months ago
With that mask on it, Opus’ schnoz looks like something other than what it is. Lola might have found him a lot more attractive.
Vonne Anton said, 8 months ago
@MrSulusBrain
Um…er….“artisian” is a therapeutic well water found at spas….sorry.
Vonne Anton said, 8 months ago
I think that President was Reagan…
MrSulusBrain said, 8 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Hey…no wonder I was thirsty after that post. Dang public school education!
Redkaycei Repoc said, 8 months ago
@James
Rayguns don’t care, he’s dead
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
Artisan vs Artesian. One is skilled in the arts, the other is a well.
jamner said, 8 months ago
….’a kinder, gentler machine gun hand"
jamner said, 8 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Good eye! I missed that misspell, had to reread to see.
jamner said, 8 months ago
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Seriously!?! Name-calling!
How totally high-schoolish!