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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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Kosaka Jinnai said, 5 months ago
Don’t worry, Opus. As a poet myself since the age of six, I can say that it does get better.
thebird55 said, 5 months ago
Well, that’s just downright………..poetic.
win said, 5 months ago
absolutin
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
“…mimic Putin”? But of course this strip was composed long before Putin was well known to the public-at-large. Of that, there’s no refutin’….
Vonne Anton said, 5 months ago
I would go with: “My passion starts to go a-rootin’.” Not romantic, but honest.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
…“Go Boot Scootin’”??
Or isn’t Opus into C+W music?
J. Short
said, 5 months ago
@Sisyphos
Beat me to it.Well anyway…

J. Short
said, 5 months ago
Wow, that turned out bigger than I anticipated!Anyone out there want to “learn me” how to scale it down.
Tacopielvr said, 5 months ago
@Kosaka Jinnai
Since age six? we’re so proud for you……..
rhtatro said, 5 months ago
@Sisyphos
Mimic Putin? He’s mimicking Stalin!
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
AAUGH! It’s Dobby, the house elf…
Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago
“Rasputin” is a grave insult to a man.
finch scout said, 5 months ago
i try to rhyme most of the time. tee hee
peter stampfel
said, 5 months ago
befor i saw thethread i though echo putin.