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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kittenpah said, 6 months ago
Ow. 30 years should have gotten us a bit further from this truth.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago
The talking heads have changed in name only since the ’80s; same old
posturingpositioning….vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago
there are more pundits than ever before. another american industry.
masterskrain said, 6 months ago
Gad! The more things change, the more they stay EXACTLY the same!
Tacopielvr said, 6 months ago
Big OUCH, boy, forgot how old some of the current “issues” are.
neatslob said, 6 months ago
George Will a total muffinhead? I usually think of him in stronger terms than that.
Omnius said, 6 months ago
It’s obvious the republicans haven’t evolved since the 1980’s, then again evolution is against their false religion.
jbmlaw said, 6 months ago
Fortunately the leftists are no longer big spenders bankrupting the country. (Snert)
GreggW
said, 6 months ago
“Beats workin’” Yeah, that about says it.
Habogee said, 6 months ago
George Will is still around. Still trying to put gold leaf on dog turds.
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
But George Will is so elegant in how he articulates obscene and deleterious political positions of his increasingly off the deep end party.
basicallystupid15 said, 6 months ago
Bring back some Lola Granola comics please
Burnside217 said, 6 months ago
Well at least we’ve put the last 30 years to good use and fixed the Social Security problem for generations to come…
Sturmmi14 said, 6 months ago
@Omnius
and your religion is the TRUE religion?
Omnius, you are such an ignorant, and unintelligent sad little troll. {You really should adhere to the motto, “It is best to remain silent, and be thought stupid, then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt”.
Do you understand that the “Science”, the belief in evolution, is a Religion? Please do some day, buy an English Dictionary, preferable one published in the ’50’s, that has not been Politically Corrected, or at least go to M-W.com once in a while. Study the words, religion, bigot, ignorant, intelligence.
But yes, Evolution is against their religion, just as intelligent thought is against yours or any other liberals. And to be truly accurate, there is no such thing as a “False Religion”, there are only religions that one disagrees with or lacks faith in. (does not believe).
Sturmmi14 said, 6 months ago
@Burnside217
Talk about religions and sacred cows…“Don’t touch my Social Security. I paid in my whole life and I am entitled to suckle off that gov’t teet.”
I wonder how many people know that, just like the ACA, in order for it to remain Constitutional, the SCOTUS renamed it a tax, money to be paid into the general fund, NOT some special account? that was then “raided” by Democrats to pay for other social programs.