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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exoticdoc2 said, 2 months ago
That’s the way of television. No matter what you offer in sacrifice, crap appears.
dukedoug said, 2 months ago
“Flying Moslem” … did Berke really write (and draw) that ? Wow, times sure were different then …
Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 2 months ago
@dukedoug
When the idea of “flying Moslems” could still be funny.
nazzofoggenmach said, 2 months ago
wish this was funny.
James
said, 2 months ago
“The Flying Moslem?” And no one rioted? Wow!
Brian Fink said, 2 months ago
@duke, I dont remember this strip at all either
vwdualnomand said, 2 months ago
seth did a skit with sally field for this year’s oscars. the oscars this year where everyone was offended.
saywhatwhat said, 2 months ago
This is ironic (and obviously old) with a computer asking the “blessings” from a TV set.
baldhedjer said, 2 months ago
I’m not quite sure how the TV got to be the Great and Exalted One. That sure was back in the day.
Omnius said, 2 months ago
Funny how times change as far as making fun of flying moslems. On the other hand tv programming is still as worthless as ever.
twypsi said, 2 months ago
Yeah, we have about 180 channels including Showtime and HBO and I still can’t find anything to watch that piques my interest. We have HBO because of the great series they run. Boardwalk, etal. There must be twenty, thirty channels devoted solely to selling you something. Then another ten or twenty about cooking.
JoeCoolLives said, 2 months ago
Being a baby-boomer, I was delighted when I learned of the channel known as “MeTV” … it runs great shows from the Fifties, Sixties, an’ some from the Seventies – shows like Perry Mason, the original Hawaii Five-0, Star Trek, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, M*A*S*H, Route 66, Odd Couple, and some great westerns like Wild, Wild West, Bonanza, and Gunsmoke…. It broadcasts shows that were made when broadcast TV had something to offer. Nowadays, it seems when a show worth watching does make it to the airwaves, it gets cancelled…
SwimsWithSharks
said, 2 months ago
God is answering, but the asker is not listening.
Jimmeh said, 2 months ago
Now you get 24 minutes of commercials in an hour on just about everythinhg on TV. I checked it out!
Grainpaw said, 2 months ago
In the mid-sixties, playing with a stopwatch, I timed the commercials on network TV on a Friday evening, 7:30 to 11:00. The total was about 22 minutes. This can be confirmed with a internet search. Makes you wonder what part of the show you’re missing when you watch an old rerun with the modern dose of commercials.