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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Willamette said, 6 months ago
Vacation from Comedy? Milo, what does this mean?
Thirdguy said, 6 months ago
Maybe Opus tux was in the wash!
James
said, 6 months ago
I got it in my email.
Vonne Anton said, 6 months ago
Obviously, from the splatter pattern, Bill the Cat got blown up again.
tsandl said, 6 months ago
How soon? Now? How about now? No? Maybe now?
albert71292
said, 6 months ago
@James
So did I.
Rand
said, 6 months ago
I believe that this is a vacation from reruns???
JoeStoppinghem
said, 6 months ago
I would like to be able to zoom the size for better reading, but I’d bet that’s not the cause.
It might be contract renewal time.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
It isn’t even on the RSS feed.
basicallystupid15 said, 6 months ago
gocomics.com seems to be losing many of its comics. Is this another one?
Slywlf
said, 6 months ago
I got it in email too – just wanted the link the online version to FB to share – dagnabbit!
PoodleGroomer said, 6 months ago
Hairballs sucked into the scanner are excluded from factory warranty and repairable as hourly labor billable.
Strod said, 6 months ago
Well, yesterday’s strip corresponds to December 5, 1982. Since lately we are going through all the Sunday strips that were skipped through years of re-runs, today’s strip would correspond to December 12 which is indeed missing from the archives. But the next Sunday is there so I expect to see it tomorrow.
I wonder which strip was the one some people got in their emails?
Shalott99
said, 6 months ago
I got in in email too, just came here to share on FB…meanwhile, I LOVE these old ones. 80’s references make me happy.
GreggW
said, 6 months ago
Life IS offensive. Deal with it.