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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capndunzzl said, 5 months ago
…not as wordy today.
jonesb said, 5 months ago
Yahoo comics has it. They always have the comics that are missing or otherwise screwed up on gocomics.
Vonne Anton said, 5 months ago
Does “currently unavailable” mean it is out of electricity? Gocomics forget to pay Bloom County’s bill?
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
GoComics will undoubtedly blame it on Oliver Wendell Jones.
Omnius said, 5 months ago
Chances are tomorrow we can see this comic by going back one day on the calendar.
Strod said, 5 months ago
This is odd. Yesterday’s comic was originally published on February 12, 1984. Since we have been revisiting the Sunday comics for the last few months, today we should see the one from February 19, 1984, which is in the archives. I wonder why we are not seeing it.
Re: Yahoo Comics, it’s interesting that they replaced today’s comic with a weirdly-colored version of a different Sunday comic from (I think) 1983 (I believe we saw it here a few weeks ago)..
ptvroman3 said, 5 months ago
I don’t see this one in the archives for 1983, but the archives are missing 5/1 and 8/14. Could be one of those days.
exoticdoc2 said, 5 months ago
@jonesb
Where on Yahoo comics? I have never seen it listed in their comics gallery.
Vonne Anton said, 5 months ago
@Sisyphos
You called it! It appeared and you were correct.
basicallystupid15 said, 5 months ago
It’s a conspiracy!
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago
@Vonne Anton
(Don’t tell anyone, but that’s because I saw it first on Yahoo—where, BTW, it is listed as “Classic Bloom County”; i.e., under the letter C.)
vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago
some people think that the hacker group anonymous are terrorists. other don’t think so. not when anonymous hacked the westboro baptist church and caused mayhem among their members/family. not when anonymous cell posted info(personal, connections, etc…) regarding the people of steubenville, ohio. as well as going after big banks who got bailouts, but suing the feds. tar sands, keystone pipeline, first nations issues in canada, and, they also exposed how the fbi with cooperation of wall street attempted to infiltrate and discredit the occupy movement. so, these hackers are doing some good work.
Vonne Anton said, 5 months ago
@Sisyphos
(I won’t tell anyone, promise! Sssshhhh!)
Vonne Anton said, 5 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Sounds to me like you know a lot about this anonymous person…maybe a confession?
vwdualnomand said, 5 months ago
@Vonne Anton
well, anonymous is a collective. they are legion.