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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chrwest said, 6 months ago
If only anxiety was librarian. Wait until past college marriage and kids. Oh there’s the mortgage. Have fun
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago
119 weeks overdue: it’s the executioner’s block for you, dear Binkley! Librarians don’t put up with scoff-laws! They’ll send Library Ninjas to apprehend you if need be [see Jacob Two-Two for reference.]
vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago
heard on the news, that someone finally returned that overdue library book. after 40 years…with the ebooks, there wouldn’t be anymore overdue notices.
tmt said, 6 months ago
As a librarian myself, I do envy her axe-throwing ability. Also, “thwonk” is a really neat sound effect!
skeeterhawk said, 6 months ago
I’d like to see the sound effect for the reverberating handle.
Hmm. This was produced before the system reached most places, but Binkley might want to dial that number of weeks overdue backwards.
masterskrain said, 6 months ago
@skeeterhawk
Maybe “Plubadababda”??
Trying to channel Don Martin…
Vonne Anton said, 6 months ago
Surprised she missed….
Sir Osis of Liver said, 6 months ago
All of a sudden, giant purple snorklewackers don’t seem so scary anymore…
hariseldon59 said, 6 months ago
She must be in league with Mr. Bookman (the library cop from Seinfeld).
jadoo823 said, 6 months ago
…off with his head…
George Tirebiter said, 6 months ago
@Vonne Anton
She didn’t. That was a warning shot.
Redkaycei Repoc said, 6 months ago
@George Tirebiter
Porgie Tirebiter…. he’s a spy and a girl exciter….
Porgie Tirebiter…. he’s a student like you… (Likeme?)…..he’s a student like you….
(Firesign Theatre)
Steve K
said, 6 months ago
The best.
JiminNYC said, 6 months ago
This one was good, but even better was one I saw in library school. A kid is tied to a chair, a gag stuffed in his mouth, while Mrs. McGreevy is on the phone: “It’s very simple, Mrs. Miller. You have our book. We have your son.”
Mitchtheone said, 6 months ago
Yes when Librarians go postal… 119 weeks, Binkley, you poor, poor, fool you.