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, 7 months ago
That’s what I like: an optimistic Civil Defense Corps!
Pigman said, 7 months ago
Two sunday strips in a row?
Tony Pezzano said, 7 months ago
Old joke but well done.
saywhatwhat said, 7 months ago
In case anyone was still wondering about Penguin Lust.
@Strod (from yesterday)
There are some dates missing. It may just have been a vacation break though. The story continues at:
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1987/07/27
dukedoug said, 7 months ago
@Pigman
Yeah … great … looks like we’re in for a bunch of out-of-sequence Sunday strips …
vwdualnomand said, 7 months ago
isn’t that the whole premise of that show doomsday preppers?
NebulousRikulau
said, 7 months ago
And don’t forget the Duct Tape!
mightaswellbe said, 7 months ago
Well at least it’s better than Bert and duck and cover.
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 7 months ago
Of course, Reagan had the last laugh . . . he outlived the USSR….
Cappy Jack said, 7 months ago
well said penny, he’s the reason this is ironically funny!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago
Wish these were in color. Sunday strips tend not to have a sequence.
Terri Brittingham said, 7 months ago
Love seeing the old, old strips!
cybergal29 said, 7 months ago
@Tony Pezzano
Yep :-)
Redkaycei Repoc said, 7 months ago
@Penny Robinson Fan Club
Yes, the USSR went broke trying to take Afghanistan, Reagan supplied the (his words) “Heroic freedom fighters” with arms and money, mainly to a fellow named Bin Ladin… whatever happened to him anyway?
MicroGuy said, 7 months ago
Yep, it’s the old The enemy of my enemy is my friend thingy…. what’s wrong with that? Some times you have to deal with bad guys. The problem was, when bin laden was a bad guy TO us, and promised by the Saudi’s to some guy named billy clinton, HE refused to pick him up. Gee…. what ever happened to THAT guy? Oh yeah, he was impeached.
We did the same thing with a guy named saddam husine. Because he was a thorn in the side of iran for a number of years.
Quite common, I mean, it’s not like Reagan invented it or anything.