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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thebird55 said, 4 months ago
I liked Jello, until I learned what it is.
capnLaz
said, 4 months ago
Too vivid an imagination.
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
Honest, Your Honor, I have never snorfled in public!
Thirdguy said, 4 months ago
I never liked Jello. Even before I knew what it was.
Tacopielvr said, 4 months ago
Pee Wee Herman…….snerk. I love this arc, I remember it too, when it first ran. Might have to see if I can dig out my old Opus stuffed to I bought in the eighties if I still have it.
Raygun said, 4 months ago
Jello – emulsified cow skin. Gelatin – Jello. I avoid it all. Don’t look for how Jello is made (carefully presented), look for how gelatin is made and you will have your disgusting answer. Assuming you wanted to know in the first place!
vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago
olympics are now corporate. get money if you medal. but, if you don’t, well that is your whole life down the drain. just waiting for a corporate team to enter during the parade of nations(maybe nestle, apple, ibm, google, halliburton, etc..)
Omnius said, 4 months ago
So funny that now our pal Pee Wee Herman, aka Paul Ruebens, is doing the voice for a character in Tron: Uprising on the Disney cartoon channel – now that’s a hilarious irony.
Vonne Anton said, 4 months ago
I’m in the mood for some snorfling….er, was that TMI?
SwimsWithSharks
said, 4 months ago
I wonder if Breathed got sued by the Olympic committee. They really don’t like it when you use the word Olympic without their permission.
One year they sued a sandwich shop that had an Olympic sandwich. The deli was in Olympia, Washington.
bpullin said, 4 months ago
The International Olympic Committee is the most corrupt organization in the world (that is not the United Nations).
MEPace said, 4 months ago
After millions of years there’s not a breath we breathe that doesn’t have some part that was farted and not a bite we eat that doesn’t have some part that was expelled from another animal’s body.
Who cares what it is made of as long as it isn’t toxic and tastes good. People are too caught up with what they think is icky. If they new half the facts about what’s in their food they would all probably starve to death.
BluePumpkin said, 4 months ago
Pee Wee should have been around for today’s entertainers . . . they can get away with just about anything and still have a career.
surfstuff55 said, 4 months ago
@MEPace
People are too caught up with what they think is icky
People getting caught up in eating “icky” things id the gist of what is happening now on the ENDTOWN strip
Bobzilla said, 4 months ago
@Raygun
And yet you’ll eat a McD hamburger made with 100% pure beef. They don’t tell you what parts of the beef you’re getting.