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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common sanse said, 3 months ago
Bill has been eating a lot of comics for a dead cat.
dukedoug said, 3 months ago
@common sanse
Ahhhh … are you sure he’s REALLY dead ???
BWA HA HA HA HA … !!
saywhatwhat said, 3 months ago
Somebody needs to feed that cat… no, I guess that won’t help, he must have eat them a long time ago.
Manhunter808 said, 3 months ago
Sure sure sure… blame the poor penguin!
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
Opus the Penguin has been feeding comic strips to Bill the Cat? Do you really expect me to believe such a fantastic tale?!
Gailed said, 3 months ago
Again, come on!!!
scottbruce said, 3 months ago
It’s time for some new stuff anyway Berkeley get back to work!
JoeCoolLives said, 3 months ago
The nonsense continues….but bot the comic strip…
Omnius said, 3 months ago
To the people who post Bloom County, please stop posting this no comic nonsense. If there isn’t a strip to post then don’t post anything. Please this lame excuse does more damage than good and gives us the opportunity to complain about no comic that day. When Pigborn doesn’t have a new cartoon to post they don’t post anything.
sandflea said, 3 months ago
Apologies not accepted.
basicallystupid15 said, 3 months ago
I think it is one of the comics Lola Granola got in the divorce settlement.
wecatsgocomics said, 3 months ago
Omniius and sandflea: I second your motions.
This is getting quite silly.
Teresa said, 3 months ago
NO!!! I will not accept your apologies! You are not repentant! When you have no comic, simply don’t post one, like the Kliban Kats and Shagg do!
kellymill1965 said, 3 months ago
Opus only eats herring so there
Horst Hrubbisch said, 3 months ago
“Spit.”