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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Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
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surfstuff55 said, 5 months ago
If RR were alive today he would be banned at the GOP
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
Yeah, a nice man, and one of our best presidents.
TheFinalSolution said, 5 months ago
@kuren444
Now, now. Don’t talk about a sitting president like that.
bpullin said, 5 months ago
Wow, vwdual, you should have your own talk show on MSDNC. Of course, nobody would see it.
Lee-Anne Griffin said, 5 months ago
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Wow, such tolerance coming from someone calling other people names.
Burnside217 said, 5 months ago
I miss him, RIP.
Thirdguy said, 5 months ago
It was said that Reagan would give you the shirt off his back, while, signing a bill that would cut the funding for the soup kitchen you were hoping to eat at tonight, and not get the connection. If we can just pass enough tax cuts for the wealthy, sooner or later some of it might trickle down, someday, maybe. It worked so well during the last Republican administration.
JoeCoolLives said, 5 months ago
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Over-gereralized, over-simplified, an’ over-inaccurate.
Dan said, 5 months ago
Why is that members of the party of “Tolerance” as so vile and intolerant in the way they communicate?
DragonRydr said, 5 months ago
@Lee-Anne Griffin
After all these past 4 years of Republicans calling everyone else socialist, communist, Muslim lover, Fascist, moocher, lazy, etc, what do you expect our response to be? I have no respect any more for Republicans, after growing up in a Republican household. Bush I was the last Republican I voted for. The Republicans of today make even that ineffective twit look good.
D PB said, 5 months ago
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It’s fairly obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. Nice trolling though.
D PB said, 5 months ago
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Ah yes, another tolerant and inclusive comment from the left.
Hypocrite much?
saywhatwhat said, 5 months ago
Can anyone say, with a straight face, that he didn’t break US law by making a deal with the Iran to delay letting the hostages go until after Carter was out of office?
Do you believe that selling weapons to Iran was the only way he (and his handlers) could come up with to fund the “Contra” end of Iran/Contra?
And yet he seemed so nice.
JoeCoolLives said, 5 months ago
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bunnyman09 said, 34 minutes ago
“Reagan was a senile, pathetic old fool who didn’t even know where he was his entire second term. The fact that he had the public hoodwinked into believing he was a kindly old man only points out the abject stupidity of the average American. He was one of the worst presidents in history and deserves his place in hell.”
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Who’s hoodwinked??? ‘Sounds like you may be, if your hatespeak means that you voted – not just once, but probably twice – for Ozero. The current POTUS is the most anti-American, unpatriotic, unconstitutional, anti-Judeo/Christian, an’ race-baiting “leader” that we’ve ever had…
The ‘anointed one’ who was going to “bring us all together” has proved to be the most divisive force in modern-day politics, especially with his entitlement state ideology and class-warfare tactics. He is a arrogant breeder of hate, not civility. An’ make no mistake – He is a very destructive force with America’s exceptionalism squarely in his cross-hairs.
America has had some very good presidents an’ some very bad ones, an’ some in between.
My memory goes back to Eisenhower, and I have never held any president in such low esteem as Ozero. In fact, I have NO esteem for him – in my book, he has yet to earn any…
If we still have a country that is recognizable as America after this person leaves office, it will be only by the grace an’ goodness of GOD.
By the way, I believe in both Heaven and Hell, and I also believe that good, decent, patriotic and visionary men like Ronald Reagan are most definitely in Heaven. People like yourself who are consumed with hateful vitriol?…well, your ultimate destination may be in question…
mrssaskfan said, 5 months ago
@kuren444
He was pretty much the last Republican gentleman.