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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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simpsonfan2 said, about 21 hours ago
I put them in salad.
Clotty Peristalt said, about 19 hours ago
Friends don’t let friends eat dandelions.
Sisyphos said, about 19 hours ago
Have you tried dandelion wine?
Opus! Come back!
dukedoug said, about 17 hours ago
Dandelions were called “Pee-the-beds” in our family going back many generations. Dandelion tea was reputed to have strong diuretic effects.
avtar123 said, about 13 hours ago
Dandelion greens sautéed with bacon. Nice lunch warm salad.
Omnius said, about 13 hours ago
Opus the tea partier, well back then it was the christian conspiracy and the loud-mouthed minority.
Jim Guess said, about 12 hours ago
Cottontail Rabbits eat dandelions all the time. Just another attempt by Berkeley to make funny … that failed.
charliesommers said, about 12 hours ago
Dandelions, higher in vitamin content than most other bitter greens and tasty too!
ypoons7666 said, about 12 hours ago
@avtar123
Anything sautéed with bacon is nice+ !
ypoons7666 said, about 12 hours ago
@Jim Guess
It was funny…or amusing, at least. The fact that it isn’t true doesn’t keep it from being funny.
gallar said, about 12 hours ago
Ah, dandelions! (We also grew up knowing their alternate names of “pee your bed”) As long as you cut the central spines out of the leaves and only use the newest and freshest leaves tehy are great as part of a mixed salad or you can wilt them in to curries etc a la saag dishes.
Traditionally dandelion heads for use in making dandelion wine should be picked on Saint George’s day for best results.
Also dandelion milk has been utilised as an ersatz rubber latex, and according to my old granny a long long time ago you can also use them in the seed stage for telling the time back in the days before you could buy a quartz wristwatch for the price of a pork pie, when the ludicrous inaccuracy of the process was perhaps a teensy bit less obvious!
Revvie Quar said, about 12 hours ago
@Omnius
More proof of your unhinged dementia.
The Tea Party didn’t exist back when this strip was first published but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? Any excuse to throw out more of your wackadoo nonsense….
You just never stop with the hate, do you? Please, please, PLEASE get back on your meds.
billbrandi said, about 9 hours ago
Back in the 60’s the Stones had a whimsical song called “Dandelion” that was mistakenly assumed to be drug related. The number of college students smoking dandelions would be too long to list.
And let go of the Tea Party comments-you liberals are obsessed with it; as shown by the IRS scandal. I would say you owe us a big apology.
billbrandi said, about 9 hours ago
@Omnius
It’s Tea Partier with a capital ‘T" and ’P’…also do you work for the IRS, per chance?
THEVIC IOUSDOUG MARTIG said, about 8 hours ago
I hereby place my vote to ask, Wait…. no I demand to join other like me to revolt against anybody that uses the comics to vent their Political or slanted views thereto! Any takers ?