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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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Sisyphos said, 8 months ago
Life With the Royals, a charming soap opera! —And Garfield on the nursery wall?!
Sir Osis of Liver said, 8 months ago
What’s up, duke?
Thirdguy said, 8 months ago
Thank goodness the kids turned out a lot cuter than this!
Brian Fink said, 8 months ago
And who else suddenly felt really old reading this?
D-squared said, 8 months ago
@Brian Fink
(hand raised) I remember these when they were first published
celecca
said, 8 months ago
sometimes reruns don’t translate well to today.
Vonne Anton said, 8 months ago
Bad news, Charles ol’ boy: you’re not even a bleedin’ figure’ead no more…more like a sales rep.
Mitchtheone said, 8 months ago
@Brian Fink
You and I both.
kittenpah said, 8 months ago
Kid looks more like Portnoy.
Cardboard Cutout said, 8 months ago
@kittenpah
You’re right, we should contact Morey Povitch and get a DNA test!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 8 months ago
Too bad that Gocomics doesn’t want to color these, even when it is on Sundays.
vwdualnomand said, 8 months ago
yep…that little kid became billy the fish. married to an attractive woman. and, his job is a search and rescue copter pilot.
angusdad said, 8 months ago
Hard to believe that so man years have passed since this strip was done. Also sad to remember Princess Di.