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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Erik Van Thienen said, 4 months ago
Ack!
wsimano said, 4 months ago
screw bill the cat and screw bloom county. i’m otta here
Lureman said, 4 months ago
Damn it Bill!
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
Curses!
xsintrix said, 4 months ago
@Sisyphos
Foiled again!
Brian K
said, 4 months ago
F@ckin Bill!! Ack back at ya!
skeeterhawk said, 4 months ago
Sisyphos and xsintrix: Are you quoting Oil Can Harry from the old ‘Mighty Mouse’ series? (Unless my memory is messed up.) Don’t know if he said that in his earlier films/shows.
Brian K
said, 4 months ago
I’d be funny if both of them pointed at each other, then we won’t know who did it
Vonne Anton said, 4 months ago
Aaahhhh…and you were doing so well, gocomics! What was that…three in a row before faltering?
Claude Badley said, 4 months ago
Again?
ptvroman3 said, 4 months ago
@wsimano
Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
Omnius said, 4 months ago
How hard can it be to post something from Bloom County? Just no excuse for running a business like this. Stop horsing around and just post cartoons on a nice regular daily basis.
Omnius said, 4 months ago
How hard can it be to post daily? I mean it’s not rocket science. Oh wait here’s it’s Brewster Rockit Science, no wonder there are so many snafus.
Ionizer said, 4 months ago
@skeeterhawk
Maybe Snidely Whiplash from Dudley Doright?
watashi73 said, 4 months ago
Not too sure everyone understands Bloom County is a rerun. Breathed gave it up a few years ago when he realized the country is so divided you have to either be Mallard or Doonsebury. There is no longer an in between. The times remind me of 1850. Been there, done that and maybe Obama is more a watershed character like Lincoln than anybody realizes.