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!
© Berkeley Breathed - All Rights Reserved.
Bliss by Harry Bliss
Bo Nanas by John Kovaleski
Comments (23) (Please sign in to comment)
simpsonfan2 said, 3 months ago
If he can replace Mallard Fillmore with Rick O’Shay, go for it.
exoticdoc2 said, 3 months ago
Note to gocomics: This really doesn’t work unless it’s in color.
Paula R. Stiles
said, 3 months ago
I bet this would be a lot funnier in the original color version.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
What would Teddy Bear say? Silent witness to all of it!
stp1957 said, 3 months ago
Yea, in the last frame it doesn’t look like Reagan anymore?
skeeterhawk said, 3 months ago
The way R.R. and Mr. T changed outfits in the posters, I wonder if Bill Amend got the idea from Breathed. Probably not. But it makes me wonder.
djmalloy said, 3 months ago
“A bored hacker is a dangerous thing.” A quote to remember. I’d like to see Bloom County now, with Oliver as a member of Anonymous.
vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago
sometimes hackers do good things. taking down the westboro church, making public the coverup of crimes, and posting info of bankers who took taxpayers’ money to save themselves.
Omnius said, 3 months ago
All that’s missing from the picture of Raygunz is a target circle.
Vonne Anton said, 3 months ago
A British computer: ticketyboop!
amartinchatt
said, 3 months ago
@exoticdoc2
bwahahaha
Clotty Peristalt said, 3 months ago
What’s written on the note attached to Reagan’s picture?
goprendek said, 3 months ago
Ronnie in the last frame is smirking and thinking to himself “Miss me now don’t ya?”
hariseldon59 said, 3 months ago
I pity da fool who doesn’t like this comic strip!
J.L.G.
said, 3 months ago
That’s strange. I’m pretty sure that the Sunday comics weren’t digitally colored until only very recently. Certainly not in the middle 1980s when this ran. Breathed was just makin’ stuff up, and was unintentionally prophetic here.