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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wecatsgocomics said, 8 months ago
Lady, you stepped over the line there….
simpsonfan2 said, 8 months ago
I do not advocate shooting all the lawyers.
hanging would be sufficient.
Sisyphos said, 8 months ago
Waste of bullets. They’re already undead. Where’s the good old guillotine when you need it?
saywhatwhat said, 8 months ago
Lawyers, the only thing worse than street mimes.
vwdualnomand said, 8 months ago
lawyers should be burned at the stake.
neatslob said, 8 months ago
Boy, here we’ve hopped right into the middle of a story line.
Judson Fredrickson said, 8 months ago
Everybody hates lawyers, until they need one. I think the issue is that the lawyers create the problem and then take advantage of the fact that they get paid (exorbitantly) regardless of whether justice is done or not. The reputation is not underservered, but gross generalization is seldom helpful.
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Tacopielvr said, 8 months ago
@Judson Fredrickson
Uhm, no. Everyone still hates lawers even after they need one. Some hate em even more.
morosemoose said, 8 months ago
My 7th grader’s class was talking about the legal system in social studies the other day when she piped up and said “Don’t ever hire a lawyer who advertises on a billboard, good lawyers don’t do that”. I guess she has listened to something I’ve said after all.
INGSOC
said, 8 months ago
Drown out your sorrows..
Sir Osis of Liver said, 8 months ago
This lady looks like she will need a lawyer if she drives home tonight…
Vonne Anton said, 8 months ago
How do we know that the mild mannered lawyer doesn’t have the hobby of Mime on the weekends, and after dark, isn’t also the Olive Loaf Vigilante? People can be more than their labels…
cybergal29 said, 8 months ago
They are missing the first part of this story line.
wroady said, 8 months ago
Ol Gal may be drunker than ell, but you’ve got to admit she’s still thinking straight!