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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thebird55 said, 5 months ago
I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams…..
Oh Superman where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.
chithing said, 5 months ago
His “Dr. Denton’s” go from backwards to frontwards.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
“We’re a Federal Agency. We NEVER make Mistakes”!
Yup, THAT’S a dream for sure!
einarbt7 said, 5 months ago
@thebird55
Good call.
“Land Of Confusion” by Genesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Confusion
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
The Dispatcher of Nightmares and Anxieties (a bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services in those days) claims that he as an officer of a federal agency never makes mistakes; true enough; he just delivered the presidential anxieties to Binkley (and vice versa) as the paperwork indicated. It was all the fault of some temp in the typing pool who got the addresses mixed up coming and going to her morning coffee break on a bleak wintry day in D.C. — And Now You Know!
K.C. Fahel said, 5 months ago
@Sisyphos
Hey! Don’t pick on the poor temp! The poor girl probably had to fill in during the Holiday season and was expected to just automatically know everything without explanation! (Yeah, I’m joking, but I WAS a temp for many years, and know of what I speak.)
skeeterhawk said, 5 months ago
Binkley’s nightmare must have poked RR in the rump, eh?
Talking of temps, I wondered how ‘Kelly Girls’ could handle it.
zoidknight said, 5 months ago
@masterskrain
That is their spin on things.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
I guess the Snorkelwacker has a pretty high security clearance…
Sir Osis of Liver said, 5 months ago
Be careful what you wish for, Mr. President, because you just might get it. I am sure JFK, for one, would rather have had a giant purple snorklewacker instead of Fidel in his closet of anxieties…
hariseldon59 said, 5 months ago
@thebird55
That was a great video. I don’t remember a Snorklewacker in it though.
neatslob said, 5 months ago
I love the last panel in this one.
SwimsWithSharks
said, 5 months ago
@neatslob
Me too. So presidential.
brewwitch said, 5 months ago
I wonder if the bed in the master bedroom at 1600 really has the Presidential Seal on the foot board….
Omnius said, 5 months ago
They say America is the home of the brave, considering all the limp-wristed conservative crybabies whining for their guns and massive increases in the military budget that just isn’t true. Only us Liberals are the real Brave Americans.