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
Makes you wish it was ’83 again
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
Fashion being cyclic, I dread the real prospect that all these will soon enough be hot styles again! (Maybe except for penguins.)
bpullin said, 7 months ago
Uggh. The only good thing about the 80’s is that they are over.
BareHgz said, 7 months ago
Fashion sucked (but we didn’t know it), but the music still thrills! Donna Summers still challenges my pacemaker.
Vonne Anton said, 7 months ago
LOL!!!! Oops…Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch! Go to bed?!? But it’s so early and I haven’t had any pudding….
James Maxwell said, 7 months ago
Thank God I was out of the country at the time and did not have to see that.
MabryCandW said, 7 months ago
My husband heard “Take Off” by Bob and Doug MacKenzie on the radio the other day, and he just realized that Geddy Lee was singing the chorus!