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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simpsonfan2 said, 4 months ago
The L.A. Herald Examiner folded.
vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago
charlie brown lives in west hollywood? thought he might be living in beverly hills. walt would not be happy if mickey spends time at the playboy mansion.
George Tirebiter said, 4 months ago
@simpsonfan2
Probably had nothing to report on with Bill gone…
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
Oh, what a wretched end (until his reincarnation) to a great cat! I am wracked with sorrow!
Kids, let this be a lesson to you! Don’t do “snort” the way poor Bill did! You don’t want a parade of fictional characters testifying about you to a Senate panel, do you?
djmalloy said, 4 months ago
Charlie Brown lives in West Hollywood? Who with, Linus or Schroeder?
Teresa said, 4 months ago
@djmalloy
He finally asked the cute little red haired girl for a date, and then to marry him.
Omnius said, 4 months ago
Too funny making fun of the anti-drug nuts in Washington like Gore’s idiot wife Tipper.
kittenpah said, 4 months ago
I’m still having trouble with the “melted his brain” concept, since a melted brain was part of what made him famous to begin with.
sandflea said, 4 months ago
Dagwood’s ready for lunch. Adjourn the hearings for a couple of hours.
dfrechet said, 4 months ago
@kittenpah
Along with most of the so called “superstars.”
Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago
@kuren444
His character does. The actor lives in West Hollywood.
Cynthia Jameson said, 3 months ago
My great grand uncle Augustine Charles Malone 1870 – 1963 owned the news agency for LA Herald Examiner and it’s sister paper the San Francisco Examiner and sold it April 15, 1901.
AmyGrantfan51774 said, 3 months ago
geez poor Bill the Cat!!!!..not a happy way to go huh?