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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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Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
Ack! Not again?! Phfft!
Clotty Peristalt said, 4 months ago
Sure, blame a dead cat who can’t defend himself any more. Boo! Hiss! Ack! Pfffffff!
dukedoug said, 4 months ago
@kuren444
He’s a lawyer … it’ll cost ya’ !!
sdebarr said, 4 months ago
It’s in that hairball he just acked up
YatInExile
said, 4 months ago
Bill probably just rolled & smoked it.
Tacopielvr said, 4 months ago
PHFFT!
sandflea said, 4 months ago
Damn censors.
locoboilerguy said, 4 months ago
There goes my day.
brickster said, 4 months ago
The secret Reagan Impeachment strips….
An untold story of what should have happened.
cybergal29 said, 4 months ago
HISS! ROWR!
eron norris said, 4 months ago
at least they aren’t just trying to feed us re-runs…. ;)
jadoo823 said, 4 months ago
…bill’s pretty hungry…tapeworm, perhaps?
Caldonia
said, 4 months ago
@eron norris
Ha ha! Well said!
I love living in the past, the future’s too uncertain.
piksea
said, 4 months ago
Poor Opus, Bloom County’s resident scapegoat.
dukedoug said, 4 months ago
@eron norris
With this strip there is ONLY reruns …