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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kittenpah said, 4 months ago
Wow. Wouldn’t it be great if the legal process really had such, um, rapid, closure?
Sisyphos said, 4 months ago
That was some fine countersuing, pard! Ah reckon we don’t need to fret o’r that scalawag Dallas none!
TheSkulker
said, 4 months ago
@kittenpah
And similar results!
Ghille said, 4 months ago
Personal responsibility??? What a concept !
dukedoug said, 4 months ago
@Ghille
Good Grief !! Where would this end … ??
neatslob said, 4 months ago
Personal responsibility for who, the poodle?
skeeterhawk said, 4 months ago
Again another issue that’s been discussed/disputed for ages.
Anyway, the whole problem in the cartoon wouldn’t have happened these days, with no Twinkies available (unless it was an old stale one, or the incident-which the litigation had only begun-happened months prior)
twypsi said, 4 months ago
As a kid, I loved Twinkies. Ate them by the box full! Then for some reason I didn’t have one until I was, probably, in my forties. I thought I would puke it was so sweet! I only took one bite and threw the rest away. Never to indulge in Twinkies again! No wonder they went under. By the way, I’m 83 now. Long live Twinkies!
Gailed said, 4 months ago
No more twinkies, but a shames!
JoeCoolLives said, 4 months ago
File this strip under “timeless concepts.”
Colonel Claus
said, 4 months ago
Yall be fergittin, twinkies have a shelf life of 4000 years…
jadoo823 said, 4 months ago
@twypsi
…83 – probably due to all the preservatives you downed with all those twinkies!
jadoo823 said, 4 months ago
@skeeterhawk
…i’m not sure this CARTOON would happen these days, what with the gun violence portrayed…(and i’m just pointing that out – i think this strip is hilarious…)
sandflea said, 4 months ago
Calling Donny a low down, yella bellied skunk butt was OK, but calling him a shifty rattlesnake seems to have touched a nerve.
fishbulb239 said, 4 months ago
$9.4 million would be extreme. However, if somebody was found guilty of throwing a food wrapper or chicken bone on the ground and a dog ate that wrapper or bone, the guilty party SHOULD be responsible for compensating for any medical costs and/or the loss of the dog. Personal responsibility should not rest solely with the victim.