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
Siskel and Ebert, they’re not.
Bill’s “early career” looks rather intriguing….
Thirdguy said, 4 months ago
Great close up!!
chithing said, 4 months ago
Yowack?
vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago
maclaine’s finer work, terms of endearment.
K.C. Fahel said, 4 months ago
“Terms of Endearment” was a running gag on an episode of “Victorious”. Imagine my daughters’ shock when they found out it was the Academy Award Best Picture Winner in its year!
el_flesh said, 4 months ago
I love setting up jokes that the kids will only get in a few years.
bpullin said, 4 months ago
Always one of my favorite strips
Sir Osis of Liver said, 4 months ago
I always wondered why people who carry chainsaws in movies always hide behind a goalie mask…
Omnius said, 4 months ago
Yep Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Strod said, 4 months ago
@Sir Osis of Liver
IIUC, in Friday the 13th Part III Jason, the resident chainsaw-carrying madman of the franchise, takes a victims hockey mask “to cover his hideously deformed face”.
The hockey mask became kind of a trademark of the Friday the 13th franchise (there were at least nine more movies), and it has been featured in other productions either as a homage or, like in this case, as a parody.
Vic said, 4 months ago
Usually those kind of flicks mark the end of one’s acting career
dfrechet said, 4 months ago
Cue the flamethrower……
towels said, 4 months ago
@Vic
It did pretty well for Jamie Lee Curtis.
Sir Osis of Liver said, 4 months ago
@Strod
My own theory is that these people may have a repressed desire to play as goaltender for the New Jersey Devils…
cybergal29 said, 4 months ago
@towels
Yeah, I just love the first two Halloween movies she did.