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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simpsonfan2 said, 7 months ago
Yeah, on Watt you should have used rocks.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago
OMG! ZZ Top is the secret Dream Patrol, the dreaded night-time thought-police!
Paula R. Stiles
said, 7 months ago
Hee! This is one of my favorites. I love that dream monster.
skeeterhawk said, 7 months ago
The front view of the shnozlepuss looks somewhat like Opus-minus the ears.
twypsi said, 7 months ago
Sorry, who’s James Watt?
SwimsWithSharks
said, 7 months ago
@twypsi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt
Thirdguy said, 7 months ago
Secretary of the interior under Pres. Reagan.
He wanted to sell off the National Parks,
among other atrocities.
Ginrummy33 said, 7 months ago
He also opposed a Beach Boys concert because he felt that they were too wildly rebellious and subversive.
Oh, and he was also the one who had “a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.” on a committee. I think that one was the final straw that got him tossed into the sun.
hariseldon59 said, 7 months ago
@Ginrummy33
Yep, that was the comment that got him booted. Bloom County did a parody of that shortly afterward.
morosemoose said, 7 months ago
@hariseldon59
I believe Mr. Breathed said he was eaten by the press,followed by the applause of the animal kingdom.
angusdad said, 7 months ago
@Ginrummy33
What was funny was that Nancy Reagan was a big fan of the Beach Boys.
Llywus said, 7 months ago
Watt was definitely one of the worst Secretaries, of any Department, in recent memory. He even made times “10 worst Cabinet Members” list.
Llywus said, 7 months ago
Blackwolff9
said, 7 months ago
♫The Dream Police
They live inside of my head.
The Dream Police
They come to me in my bed,♫
skipcarlsen said, 7 months ago
@Thirdguy
Provided that the buyer would have to agree to maintain the parks in their current pristine (?) condition and open to the public; it makes perfect sense to sell them off! Parks would probably start turning a profit, too. Put a bigger dent in our disgraceful deficit than Obumble’s class warfare ‘tax the rich’ scheme for sure!