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, 4 months ago
Yes, but where’s the misspelling?
Clotty Peristalt said, 4 months ago
Agreed. Dan Quayle would have spelled it “Potatoe Head” (sic)
midaswelby said, 4 months ago
@Clotty Peristalt
At lease Quayle didn’t say “Navy Corpseman”
masterskrain said, 4 months ago
@midaswelby
Or “Is our children educated?”
Doctor Why said, 4 months ago
“Is yew is, or is yew ain’t my constichency?”
Omnius said, 4 months ago
Quayle’s son takes after his dad, ignorance runs in that family.
bpullin said, 4 months ago
Bet he knows how many states there are, and how to balance a budget.
Teresa said, 4 months ago
@Doctor Why
Hee Hee Hee!
“I love “Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?”
So how does the senator know it was him that was written about?
AmyGrantfan51774 said, 4 months ago
@midaswelby
you mean at least right????
AmyGrantfan51774 said, 4 months ago
at last there’s a Bloom County strip today yessssssssssssssss!!!! as sportscaster Marv Albert would say