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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Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
Hey, I’m good with cute!
thebird55 said, 5 months ago
It’s been too long since my nose was kissed.
Tokyo Tengu said, 5 months ago
I’m good with cute!
skeeterhawk said, 5 months ago
I think she’s cute. I don’t recall her though, nor the gals in the comic yesterday. 30 years and not reading BlmCty on a regular basis, I definitely missed a few characters and threads.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
@skeeterhawk
Actually, this girl, and the one in the strip yesterday that Yaz was trying to remember the name of are just one shot characters. Even Oliver’s grandfather was never seen again!
D-squared said, 5 months ago
She said I’m cuuuuute!
vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago
kawaii
twypsi said, 5 months ago
Loved the hair springing up, 5th panel!
Bailey said, 5 months ago
@twypsi
… I chuckled when I saw that, too. Thank goodness it landed well in the next panel!
K.C. Fahel said, 5 months ago
Short girls also get stuck with “cute”. I resented it so much when I was in my 20s. I didn’t want “cute”. I wanted “pretty”, maybe “sexy”…but being only 5’ tall, got stuck with “cute”.
Fogger_man said, 5 months ago
cute…
Ginrummy33 said, 5 months ago
I don’t remember this strip, but I do remember one with the exact same wording and layout but with Milo and the Major instead. Maybe Berke thought that one was run so early that he could re-use it again later with a slight edit. He certainly did that with his college era strips, and year one of Bloom County was not widely seen.
Omnius said, 5 months ago
Only 15 more years and I’ll be cute again, Whoopee!
Bailey said, 5 months ago
@K.C. Fahel
… I’m more your size, and got “cuted” a bit myself. My taller (much taller) good buddies got stuck with “lanky”… ouch! I’ll take “cute” any day over “lanky”! Eeeesh.
capndunzzl said, 5 months ago
…that’s just not right…or maybe she lost a bet.