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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Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
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exoticdoc2 said, 6 months ago
Many are only liberals until they actually put forth a little effort and succeed.
Morgil Ravenswing said, 6 months ago
Yep … unlike notable liberal losers like Warren Buffett, George Soros, Bill Gates, David Bonderman, Stewart Resnick …
greenbrd said, 6 months ago
@exoticdoc2
The only effort many rich conservatives put forth is being born to wealthy parents, and then acting like they’re self-made success stories.
vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago
reagan raised taxes.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago
Still true today, the only difference being that this liberal seems to have a conscience.
bhinkle said, 6 months ago
@Morgil Ravenswing
Hey, there are always exceptions to the rule.
Plus Bill Gates gets to be liberal by being rich. Nice guy, just don’t ‘collaborate’ or ‘partner’ with him.
stephensalaun said, 6 months ago
Many rich people are liberals, out of a false sense of ‘guilt’ for having made so much!
James
said, 6 months ago
So this is what happens when the 99% become the 1%…they’re rich but they feel guilty. Don’t worry, guy. Since Obama wants the rich to pay for everybody else with their taxes, you’ll be poor again real soon.
bbadenov said, 6 months ago
To paraphrase Maggie Thatcher: Liberalism works until you run out of other people’s money.
neatslob said, 6 months ago
Yeah, because we know nobody ever became rich with a tax rate of 39%. Oh, wait… people became rich with a tax rate over 90%! So I guess the “Obama’s going to take all our money” argument is actually pretty stale.
skeeterhawk said, 6 months ago
I’m just going to say, hmm, when I learned to type, I bought a used Smith-Corona. Not the greatest machine, but lasted till I got a PC and a word processor on it.
Not a best seller, if he went through 22 printings and only made $250,000. But it would have been nice in the 1980s.
RockChalkJayhawk said, 6 months ago
I’m with Opus…
morosemoose said, 6 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Reagan gave a huge cut first, then raised taxes…repeatedly. Something the current GOP likes to ignore.
Wivern said, 6 months ago
Liberals are hypocrites. Always have been, always will be, by design.
Vonne Anton said, 6 months ago
There are two kinds of conservatives: ones who choose to be before knowing anything (and we are overloaded with that sanctimonious kind), and ones who start out liberal and then gain experience, ultimately seeing value in some conservative positions. To me, the best conservative is still a liberal at heart, The best liberal? The RICH kind! (See list of names above.)