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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Blackwolff9
said, 7 months ago
Never figured Binkley’s dad to be the religious type. Guess I missed this arc the first time around.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
People take their theological disputes very seriously….
vwdualnomand said, 7 months ago
religion ruins everything.
dukedoug said, 7 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Amen !!
Dunestrider said, 7 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Yeah, right. You read the headlines and you will see 99% of man’s inhumanity to man is due to anger, greed and other results of atheistic, hedonistic philosophy.
masterskrain said, 7 months ago
Not going to get into the Religion Rant again, except to say that ALL religions are Cults, some just have more members, and a better P.R. Budget!
Lee-Anne Griffin said, 7 months ago
LOL..the arguments over religion or no religion are pathetic. People that have deep faith are not less intelligent, nor are they more intelligent. People are people. That religion can be abused, there is no doubt, but humans would just find something else to fight over. We always have and sadly always will. Anyone that thinks they are superior based on belief or no-belief is pretty darn sad. And for all the atrocities committed in the name of religion, there are just as many done by non religious people like Stalin or Mao.
Sir Osis of Liver said, 7 months ago
@Lee-Anne Griffin
Amen!
Sir Osis of Liver said, 7 months ago
Binkley’s dad knows his King James Bible… at least, those parts that suits him.
Bobby Krell said, 7 months ago
@Blackwolff9
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1987/07/09
That’s when he “found religion”
Vonne Anton said, 7 months ago
This strip is calling out a specific slice of religion: the born again fundamentalist community. This community is militaristic about morality, blind to science, and avid believers that God should torture people forever. Not all religions are like that, and commenters who lump all spiritual people together because of the few are simply uneducated bigots. But that’s the atheistic, evolutionist, secular model for demeaning people who don’t agree with them…
Here at Bloom County, on Oct 10 (Thursday), several of them implied I was an idiot and did not understand science. So, I posed a scientific quandary regarding evolution’s foundations. Not a single one answered the question. I was hoping to get educated, but maybe the question was too hard.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 7 months ago
@Lee-Anne Griffin
Hopefully someday we will mature as a species, The statement that we never will is sad, we have evolved as a species in many respects, we no longer believe it is right to own other people, women are no longer a sub class to men (mostly). I have to hope that someday our moral growth will catch up with out technological growth and we will become something better then the techno-barbarians we now are.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 7 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Quandary: no oxygen for the amino acids to be fully formed…then magically oxygen pops into existence immediately to protect them. How can this happen? What process would cause it? Sounds to me like gullibility. And this is only one of many quandaries you will face. Please defend your faith._____________________________
There was no oxygen at ground level. The first life on Earth was not oxygen based you can look this up very easily. Ozone high in the atmosphere had no effect on the life formed at ground level.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 7 months ago
@Redkaycei Repoc
I suggest you read “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson. He explains this very well.
Sturmmi14 said, 7 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Hey Pot, stop calling the Kettle black. As an atheist, I take exception to your comment. ;-) (Although, I am a conservative atheist, and I would agree with you that it is generally liberal atheist that use this tactic, but that is also a typical liberal tactic)
Vonne Anton said, 4 days ago
@Black4dder
OK…let’s take one example.
Evolution states that in the primitive atmosphere, amino acids formed and drifted into the organic soup oceans. Was there oxygen in that primitive atmosphere? Amino acids can only form where there is no oxygen (called a reducing atmosphere); yet, oxygen is the ozone layer and is required in that atmosphere to protect these fragile amino acids from being shredded in seconds by solar radiation.
Quandary: no oxygen for the amino acids to be fully formed…then magically oxygen pops into existence immediately to protect them. How can this happen? What process would cause it? Sounds to me like gullibility. And this is only one of many quandaries you will face. Please defend your faith.
Scientists have recently discovered amino acids in meteorites. So it was the amino acids that “Magically” appeared in an oxygen rich environment, not the other way around. (Maybe)
OK, let’s get something straight. One must believe (have faith) in one of two UN-CAUSED events. 1): There is a God, and She created everything (God is female, and there is logic to support this hypothesis) 2): For lack of a better term; Big Bang. After that everything is cause and effect. And how do we know that God did not create evolution as a mechanism to advance the human species? As an Atheist, I can not say, “There is NO God.” (No one can say there is or there is no God, unless they are an IDIOT) One can only say that one BELIEVES there is or isn’t one.
And it is simple to follow the evolution of the human and human civilization, Egypt, Persia, Macedonia, (with a split to India) Greece, Rome, Spain, France, England, Germany…(Anglo-Saxon) USA. India, Mongolia, (China), S.E. Asia, Korea, Japan.
Now, just where the human came from, well that involves a little faith. (In one or the other) (But I do know that since the middle ages, the human has gone from about 5 foot tall and 90 lbs to 6 foot and 220, from about 35 years to 80 years. About 400 years evolution) Would it be too difficult to imagine 40,000 years evolution?