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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Brian K
said, 7 months ago
Better lock yourself in the closet Opus and stay there for a few months.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
Opus, the Social Outcast!
P.S. Brian K—just so long as it isn’t Binkley’s Closet of Anxieties!
TheSkulker
said, 7 months ago
Of course! The insider traders are merely unethical and crooked, not immoral!
bbadenov said, 7 months ago
Oh my, wife swapping insider traders! That’s bad! Run Opus, run!
einarbt7 said, 7 months ago
NOOO not the library card.
zoidknight said, 7 months ago
@TheSkulker
Correct. Except the unethical part. The only ones who consider it unethical are the ones who do not have the same information.
MrSulusBrain said, 7 months ago
Opus, never never ever ever ask “What can be next?”. You’re lucky they didn’t cancel your membership in the “Hair club for flightless waterfowl”.
Vonne Anton said, 7 months ago
I hoped it was good news from McDonalds….you deserve a brick today….(ok, I’ll go away now).
MrSulusBrain said, 7 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Would you like fries with that brick?
PoodleGroomer said, 7 months ago
I hope he has to return everything so they can restock the herring pornography selections.
MagicFan said, 7 months ago
Nobody ever said what penguin lust was!
Sir Osis of Liver said, 7 months ago
@MagicFan
That is exactly the beauty of the thing: a definition, in this case, would act as a limitation. And Oral Bill and his disciples certainly don’t want to limit their own freedom to persecute…
Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago
Today’s “Ziggy” has every one checking out a book getting an electronic ankle bracelet.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 7 months ago
@zoidknight
I disagree, cheating is cheating and every person who thinks so finds it unethical even if they have no personal interest involved.
Brian K
said, 7 months ago
@Sisyphos
Haha