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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Yamakasi said, 7 months ago
Reminds me of a cross between Ted Nugent and Busta Rhymes…
thebird55 said, 7 months ago
Is this what I have to look forward to if I get good enough to get gigs?
vwdualnomand said, 7 months ago
we are getting old. when we remember the 1980s fondly.
saywhatwhat said, 7 months ago
No, old is when you remember that you have reason to feel just like Milo does about the 80’s.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
The Eighty-Three Blues is a blues for 1983, I take it, reminiscing about those good old days, the ’60s and ’70s. Such a great nostalgia trip!
Clap! Clap! Clap!
SwimsWithSharks
said, 7 months ago
Disco was our downfall. We were getting smarter until disco. Then it was 3 piece suits, leisure suits, preppies, Reagan, consumption, greed is good, capitalism as a religion. Bee Gees gets a share of the blame.
Thirdguy said, 7 months ago
Wow! What a voice!!
Tacopielvr said, 7 months ago
Hmmmmmm. Not sure if I miss the eighties beyond the birth of my son.
J. Short
said, 7 months ago
The Bee Gee he knew died.
Black4dder said, 7 months ago
“Gag me with a smurf.”
What a poet!
GreggW
said, 7 months ago
Compared with today the 80s are looking better and better.
Omnius said, 7 months ago
What’s funny is that little has changed since the 80’s, we’re still suffering from ronny raygunz’s reign of economic terror that has given us such a massive national debt.
James
said, 7 months ago
I was going to say that Mr “83 blues” has a whole new set of cultural issues to complain about. On the other hand, Garfield is still with us so maybe not everything is different.
Essex60 said, 7 months ago
@vwdualnomand
“we are getting old. when we remember the 1980s fondly.”
How ‘bout if we remember the 40’s fondly?
(I’m thinking I have socks older than you)
greg_liu said, 7 months ago
Know any Justin Bieber?