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
Oh, please! This is SOOOO old by now!
win said, 4 months ago
Acckkk!
greenbrd said, 4 months ago
Bill is mighty well-fed these days…
wecatsgocomics said, 4 months ago
I’m beginning to see why somebody didn’t want to run these old Sunday strips.
brickster said, 4 months ago
Are there no newspaper archives to search?
Pigman said, 4 months ago
You know what you can do with your apologies, don’t you?
Gailed said, 4 months ago
O.K. guys, how about a different a new comic instead?
Omnius said, 4 months ago
This is getting stupid, just put up cartoons, not lame excuses. Opus would be far more diligent in keeping us posted with the latest Bloom County cartoon.
Vonne Anton said, 4 months ago
LOL! Haven’t seen this one before! …. (groan)
Parson1 said, 4 months ago
I just come here to ready the butthurt in the comment section.
Black4dder said, 4 months ago
Are we getting one every other day at least?
katina.cooper said, 4 months ago
Typed in bloom county comics on yahoo and it shows all the comics, including the daily 4 panel ones.
Colonel Claus
said, 4 months ago
See? Bill ain’t daid.
JoeCoolLives said, 4 months ago
…’Patently ridiculous…just go the archives and get something to put out there – are there copyright or licensing issues preventing such an (apparently) obvious solution to this looniness?
Tacopielvr said, 4 months ago
@Parson1
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