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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Kosaka Jinnai said, 6 months ago
That’s not even Sylvester’s lisp!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago
Hey, Ted! You didn’t give the candidate a chance to speak his (alleged) mind.
Darren Blair said, 6 months ago
@Sisyphos
That’s how a lot of “news” shows work – they just have a token nod to the other side so that they can get away with a total bash job.
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There are entire networks that I no longer trust because of this, like ABC (US) and the BBC.
Omnius said, 6 months ago
@Kosaka Jinnai
Sounds like Sylvester’s lisp to me, are you sure you know what you’re talking about?
elbeck said, 6 months ago
Sounds like the “balanced” reporting the networks gave on the Long Beach port strikes.
djmalloy said, 6 months ago
If Opus ran today, the chattering skulls would be fretting about him not being a natural-born citizen. Where’s the birth certificate?
Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago
@Omnius
Originally Daffy Duck had that lisp till they created Sylvester the cat. Then he got it.
Llywus said, 6 months ago
I’d plum forgotten about Ted Koppel and Nightline. I didn’t need reminded of it, either!