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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PianoGuy24
said, 7 months ago
Still waiting for America to wake up to “Bengazi-Gate”!
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
Ahh, the social responsibility and integrity of the pack-press!
dukedoug said, 7 months ago
@Sisyphos
Where … ???
Thirdguy said, 7 months ago
@PianoGuy24
I think the rest of America has spoken, and returned to their lives. Maybe you should try that.
starfighter441 said, 7 months ago
Federal offence taking someones mail isn’t it?
James
said, 7 months ago
He must be a Republican. The press would have swept it all under the rug if he were a Democrat…at least today.
Vonne Anton said, 7 months ago
Bark? You always know the sound of a pack of news hounds.
MrSulusBrain said, 7 months ago
Excuse me Senator Bedfellow, which scandal committee was that? The one that investigates them or the one that starts them?
zoidknight said, 7 months ago
@James
Or anytime in the last 4 years or the next 4 years.
zoidknight said, 7 months ago
@MrSulusBrain
Neither, the one having those reporters charged with tampering with the mail and making sure they each serve at least 20 years in a federal prison.
Omnius said, 7 months ago
@zoidknight
Hey ‘roidknight – must be tough being a loser without a brain huh? Yeah go hide for the next 4 years if you can’t take the democracy, better yet self deport to Somalia.
Omnius said, 7 months ago
Sad that the press hasn’t evolved one damned bit since Berke did this cartoon decades ago.
sarah413 said, 7 months ago
@Omnius. Nice retort. Sheesh. This is exactly what’s wrong today, the ability to disagree with someone or something is gone. The days of reasoning are gone and that’s truly sad.
American1 said, 7 months ago
Bark? I didn’t know vultures barked.
Heidi Tentee said, 7 months ago
Dead ambassasor. King O’Bama denied it was a terrorist attack for 2 weeks and this is considered “grasping at straws”.
Go back to listening to your news reporters who say Hurricane Sandy was a good thing.