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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chizzel said, 3 months ago
This is gettin old, already alright
Manhunter808 said, 3 months ago
Bill couldn’t have eaten all the “missing” strips and still be so thin. More finger-pointing at poor, and rotund, Opus. Bill looks umm… crazy, and Opus looks guilty.
neatslob said, 3 months ago
This is a rerun.
Ray Thomas said, 3 months ago
Why don’t they just cancel it and be done with it?
goprendek said, 3 months ago
if they are missing a strip why cant they just post the next one they have? this is stupid!
Wivern said, 3 months ago
Deleted the bookmark for this strip. Tired of this, but also the vintage strips just dont do it for me anymore.
Omnius said, 3 months ago
Please stop showing us this garbage excuse, if you don’t have anything to post then don’t post anything.
Habogee said, 3 months ago
Accept their apologies. They said please..
Tacopielvr said, 3 months ago
@Wivern
Yea, I just made the same decision for the same reasons. So long Bloom County, see you in my book collection.
katina.cooper said, 3 months ago
I get a beer tonight. I bet myself if I see the “Bill ate it” sign, I get a beer that night.
scbaguru said, 3 months ago
ACK! Pfffft!!!!
brickster said, 3 months ago
Just go out and buy the book!
Redkaycei Repoc said, 3 months ago
@brickster
Which book? there are 5 covering the complete Bloom County, at $40.00 a pop that’s an investment some don’t wish to make.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
Quit jerking my chain, GoComics!
thebird55 said, 3 months ago
Somebody please get that cat something decent to smoke so he’ll quit smokin’ the strips!!