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!
© Berkeley Breathed - All Rights Reserved.
Bliss by Harry Bliss
Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
Comments (20) (Please sign in to comment)
wsimano said, 4 months ago
This part time strip is useless. I’m going to miss you.
American1 said, 4 months ago
Bill!
JoeCoolLives said, 4 months ago
I always found this strip to be entertaining, witty an’ smart…But it’s both disappointing an’ tiresome to find this lame excuse in its place so often…
Omnius said, 4 months ago
No Mas on the excuses, just give us the real deal. There’s no good reason why we can’t see Bloom County strips since they’re old anyway.
jpa2046 said, 4 months ago
Will somebody feed that cat some kibble, please!
GreggW
said, 4 months ago
It’s starting to get REALLY irritating.
Steven Young
said, 4 months ago
@Omnius
Totally correct, yet im happy just to see these old ones that, for some reason, were never printed, im willing to wait. Not like I dont have 20 other comics in my que to read each day.
ptvroman3 said, 4 months ago
I’m not sure why they’re just replaying Sunday strips anyway. There are definitely more Sundays missing than weekdays.
octagon said, 4 months ago
There is something more going on here. The truth always comes out over time. Isn’t that correct T’ao.
Wendy Justice
said, 4 months ago
So is Bloom County going to come back or not?!?!
Ionizer said, 4 months ago
@Omnius
“There’s no good reason why we can’t see Bloom County strips since they’re old anyway.”
Actually, there are several good reasons, from true technical difficulties to the copyright holder’s decision not to allow it any more. Now it comes down to whether or not GoComics is giving the true reason.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
This is silliness. And GoComics doesn’t even deign to give any apology or even explanation of why it did not update overnight; presumably not until some live person arrived with the morning shift to find and silently fix the problem….
Vonne Anton said, 4 months ago
How many other strips have their personalized “Nobody home” message? Just curious.
Teresa said, 4 months ago
@Vonne Anton
Good question. I don’t know that answer.
This is getting old, tho. Kilban’s Kats simply do not publish 5 days out of 7.
AStarofDestiny said, 4 months ago
@octagon
Lance agrees, also. Snerk!