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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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Brian K
said, 6 months ago
I’d always think the world is ending every time there is an earthquake.
farflungfloyd
said, 6 months ago
Wow… close to thirty years later and nothing has changed…
Vonne Anton said, 6 months ago
Do the recent election results mean I should crouch in a door frame? Stop, drop, and roll? Anything?
surfstuff55 said, 6 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Stop, drop trou, and roll eyes
Ottodesu said, 6 months ago
@farflungfloyd
I was just about to say exactly the same thing!
Uncanny after the last election or two.
I’m also amazed that they had creationists back then. They seem to have been around forever. Wonder what they talked about in 4005 BC.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago
There seems to be a flaw in the Institute’s calculations, as the Drift has been increasing in magnitude. There is also a southward sheer effect. So, make that China rather than Russia….
djmalloy said, 6 months ago
There was just an earthquake in Maine. The GOP chairman there also said “dozens” of black people voted in an equally seismic event.
exciledknight said, 6 months ago
And “Barackaclaus” adding to the debt is excuseable? You libs…grab a joint and go sit in the corner because your kind is being aborted out of existence or being reduced in number by non-productive “marriages”!
exoticdoc2 said, 6 months ago
@Ottodesu
Of course they had creationists “back then.” The truth has been around since the beginning.
GreggW
said, 6 months ago
Unfortunately it didn’t happen.
basicallystupid15 said, 6 months ago
Yawns
angusdad said, 6 months ago
@
Amen! The republicans are quick to dub the democrats as tax and spend. However, the republicans are borrow and spend. It’s interesting to look at all the past presidents and the deficits and surpluses. In almost every case, the republicans are in the deficit and the dems are in the surplus. The reason for Obama being in the deficit is that the republicans made such a mess before hand.
Sturmmi14 said, 6 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Surf Stuff, was close…
Stop, Drop Trou, and bend over…(if you have any Vaseline handy, I would recommend a large dollop, ’cause Uncle Sam, does not supply his own.)
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
@farflungfloyd
But the Right has changed, they have gone Reich wing, embraced the worse hard cases of their party.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
@exciledknight
Pres. Obama added less debt than any Republican president during the past 30 years. That is a fact.