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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George Tirebiter said, 3 months ago
“Ambisexual Walnut”…
That’s going in my “scathing insults” file!
dukedoug said, 3 months ago
Top panel sign is back …
Thirdguy said, 3 months ago
“A Bushy deception!” This was WAY before its time!
bbadenov said, 3 months ago
Sounds just like MSNBC’s editing.
zoidknight said, 3 months ago
@Thirdguy
And yet we live under the Obamanomics deception of non-stop lies for the last 4+ years.
vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago
westmoreland had a flawed strategy for vietnam. an extremely flawed strategy.
twypsi said, 3 months ago
I liked “Persnicuous lube-sopper!”
Vonne Anton said, 3 months ago
Who put up the “No raspberries” sign? The media, of course!
Tacopielvr said, 3 months ago
@zoidknight
Hey, did you hear that Barack Obama is going to be president for the NEXT FOUR YEARS? I can’t wait until he can make his two, maybe three, Supreme Court appointments which will make sure liberal values are the law of the land for DECADES to come! Every single morning I wake up joyful that he is our President, not only because he’s incredible and awesome, but because I know ultra-conservatives, and tea baggers are going to have another horrible, hate-filled day, soaking in their own bile and choking on their own stupidity. Life is good!
SwimsWithSharks
said, 3 months ago
Persnicious Lube Sopper? Hey, it aint braggin’ if you can do it.
Ah who am I kidding. I brag about lube sopping all the time.
Rainfoot said, 3 months ago
@Tacopielvr
Thanks Taco for speaking up for us liberals. I hate Obama for the drones, love him for allmost everything else. Plus lovely Michelle has been the best first lady sence Jackie K.
Omnius said, 3 months ago
@zoidknight
Yes Obamanomics is repairing the damage to our Bushwhacked economy that lost millions of jobs and put us so far in debt. Let’s not forget war criminal bush’s many lies like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that were never found.
Thirdguy said, 3 months ago
@Tacopielvr
You just made my day!
Clotty Peristalt said, 3 months ago
If Opus were an ambisexual walnut, would he be subject to the great moral evil of ….. Penguin Lust?!
Thirdguy said, 3 months ago
@Rainfoot
I agree with you about the drones, and everything else.