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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Ottodesu said, 3 months ago
Just happened to watch a doco about The Party Of Reagan yesterday.
And happened to see a doco on the history of advertising the week before, where they featured his re-election TV ad, voiced by the guy who wrote the ad, brilliant. First time I had seen it, I am not an American.
What a namby liberal he was compared to today’s scenario. He wouldn’t get a Democrat nomination nowadays.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago
Sitting a long time well-nigh motionless on a cold, frozen roof in mid-winter can do that to a young scholar. —Nice penmanship for a freezing chap, though….
dukedoug said, 3 months ago
@Sisyphos
He’s also likely to get asteroids …
vwdualnomand said, 3 months ago
plus, one can’t look at the stars in the city. light pollution.
skeeterhawk said, 3 months ago
@vw … That might be why “the western sky is looking particularly empty.” That third moon would be Ganymede. And I don’t think he could see any activity on any of Jupiter’s moons with that telescope—especially in the city. Ha.
neatslob said, 3 months ago
@Ottodesu
Regan was a Republican. He started the myth of the trickle-down economy.
BloomCo said, 3 months ago
@neatslob
And Obama still perpetuates it. Obama said that making the middle class strong would improve things for the lower class.
BluePumpkin said, 3 months ago
@neatslob
I think Ottodesu is commenting on how much farther right of Regan the republican party is now. It’s been said by various people that even Regan couldn’t get backed by the republican party today because they wouldn’t find him conservative enough.
Dunestrider said, 3 months ago
@skeeterhawk
It’s possible to see four of Jupiter’s biggest moons with a pair of binoculars.
Omnius said, 3 months ago
Yep listening to Ronny Raygunz lies always invigorates us Liberals to try harder to overcome the Great Right Lies like Trickle Down Economics that have left our country bankrupt morally and economically, not to mention massively in debt.
Ionizer said, 3 months ago
@BluePumpkin
Who’s Regan?
djmalloy said, 3 months ago
At this time of year, Cygnus is setting at sunset, and is difficult in the haze along the horizon. Even with a small telescope 3 miles from Downtown Boston, you can see Jupiter’s 4 largest moons. Can’t tell if there’s any activity on them, but they change from night to night.
BluePumpkin said, 3 months ago
@Ionizer
Typo, sorry.
cat3crazy said, 3 months ago
@BloomCo
There’s still a middle class in the US?
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago
@Omnius
“We got a problem, guys. The suckers aren’t buying the ‘Blame Bush’ meme anymore, who else can we hang the boss’ catastrophe on?”