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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Vonne Anton said, 5 months ago
Is that Liza Minelli in that picture?
Steve Plegge said, 5 months ago
“YOU’RE” values???
Rodney said, 5 months ago
@Steve Plegge
Grammar Nazi! (you’re right, by the way…)
Thirdguy said, 5 months ago
He snuck that in there on purpose with all the other "you’re"s to see if anyone would notice.
vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago
celebs have value? and morals? and responsible?
Ottodesu said, 5 months ago
This was before Star Wars was re-booted.
Perhaps this is what George Lucas read before he re-named the original movie?
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
That’s what happens when you “freebase” Little Friskies!
Bailey said, 5 months ago
@Steve Plegge
… well you ARE your values!
:ºJ
K.C. Fahel said, 5 months ago
@Ottodesu
No, the original was ALWAYS “A New Hope”. If you watch the beginning of the movie, the scrolling says something like “Episode IV: A New Hope”. Everyone simply CALLED it just “Star Wars”.
Raygun said, 5 months ago
The very first time Star Wars came out in 1977 it simply said “Star Wars”. There was no “New Hope” or episode number on the beginning of the crawl that I remember. On the re-release it did have that added.
Thirdguy said, 5 months ago
So Bill the Cat was the role model for LiLo?
el_flesh said, 5 months ago
Everyone was confused when they read “Episode V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK” and at 11 years old, I thought “whaaa? Are they even going to bother going back to do #1, 2, and 3 then?”
Yup. The answer was sure not worth the wait.
Also, where’s the nudity? Those girls in the sports car have been digitally altered to have clothes on. Bloody inhibited Palin Republicans.
Bailey said, 5 months ago
@Raygun
… hmm. I think I remember one, and we did see it on opening night. Front row. Center.
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It got us all excited that there would be more to come, as I recall.
morosemoose said, 5 months ago
@Raygun
But in a 1977 interview, Lucas did say that Star Wars was the 4th movie. He had plans to do 9 all together, the original three, three prequels, and three sequels. He has denied it, but I still have the intrerview.
morosemoose said, 5 months ago
@K.C. Fahel
No. originally it was Star Wars. I watched it six times that summer. No New Hope. That was added when the viseos came out.