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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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Sisyphos said, 2 months ago
I am underwhelmed. I hope Dad Binkley really wasn’t awake enough to catch all those lyrics….
Oh, and Opus? Don’t expect to receive payment for that toot-squawk.
capnLaz
said, 2 months ago
Try concentrating on content.
Thirdguy said, 2 months ago
It helps if you have an attention span greater than a gnat.
skeeterhawk said, 2 months ago
@kuren444
I think these gocomics publications are all Sunday editions. Or did BB at some time change to this format entirely?
skeeterhawk said, 2 months ago
Impromptu? Maybe the performance. But the cheap lyrics were obviously preplanned.
blackash said, 2 months ago
We are in a run of Sunday editions.
nazzofoggenmach said, 2 months ago
i gotta have more cowbell!
hariseldon59 said, 2 months ago
I seem to recall that Tom Binkley was supposed to be in his mid-thirties. That might have seemed old to me in the ’80s (when I was in my twenties), but seems rather young now.
kauri44 said, 2 months ago
Look on the bright side. At least he’s not an avocado anymore.
Bobzilla said, 2 months ago
@Thirdguy
The state bird of Georgia.