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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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rayannina said, 3 months ago
And almost 30 years later, nothing has changed …
simpsonfan2 said, 3 months ago
@rayannina
THIS!
exoticdoc2 said, 3 months ago
@rayannina
Actually, a great deal has changed…this nation’s morals continue to slide into the sewer.
surfstuff55 said, 3 months ago
@exoticdoc2
The only morals sliding into the sewer are the ones that are supposed to keep person A out of the private business of person B
Don’t mothers teach their children to mind their own business anymore.
KennyVon said, 3 months ago
And almost 30 years later, nothing has changed …
& they are still Full of Bigots!
Redkaycei Repoc said, 3 months ago
@exoticdoc2
I guess it depends on what you see as moral. Personally I don’t think it’s anyone’s right to judge other peoples sexuality, but I do think its ok to question why people feel a need to own guns that the only purpose of is to kill other human beings. If you want to hunt food for your table, I have no problem with that. If you feel a need to own a gun because it makes you feel ‘tough’, I feel you have a problem, but that’s me.
Quantumtorpedo1
said, 3 months ago
@KennyVon
You took the words right off of my keyboard.
James
said, 3 months ago
30 years later and liberal attitudes about conservatives are still the same.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
Well played, Opus, though your acting is a little over the top. —Like Binkley’s costuming/prosthetics….
vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago
gop has some serious issues. when they can’t believe they lost the election, they try to change the rules. when they do outreach to minorities, it isn’t because of they care about minorities, it is because of elections.
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
@vwdualnomand
And rather than adjust their policies, they simply adjust the language they use.
Jimmeh said, 3 months ago
OK, let’s see the strip where the hypocrites on the left are roasted!
SwimsWithSharks
said, 3 months ago
@Jimmeh
What you’re really complaining about is the lack of brilliant conservative satirists and conservative comic writers.
FoxNews can’t even produce a funny news show to match Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. Not for lack of money or trying, either.
I wonder why it’s like that. Lack of free thinking? Creativity?
Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago
I have no problems with true conservative, there are some very valid points to be made from both the right and the left
Unfortunately the current crop of conservatives seem to be short on valid arguments and seem to prefer the attack mode
The republicans need to expel the Religious Right and get back to basics before a valid third party comes along
JoeCoolLives said, 3 months ago
Extremism in either party is unproductive and dangerous.
Currently, we have an abundance of this in both parties…and the polarization of America is one of its consequences…Neither party should wield anything close to absolute power, but we are headed in that direction, and the path is filled with peril…