![]() On December 8, 1980, Bloom County, syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group, 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.īreathed set Bloom County in a small town. The comic strip attracted the notice of the editors of The Washington Post, who recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. Publication history and production īloom County originated from a comic strip known as The Academia Waltz, which Breathed produced for The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas. īreathed won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1987, making him only the second (and so far last) comic strip artist to win a Pulitzer the other was Garry Trudeau, whose work has influenced Breathed. ![]() The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015. On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing Bloom County again. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. Washington Post Writers Group (1980–1989)īloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. ![]() We all use cell phones now Berke and Captain Kangaroo is no longer on TV.The cover of the first Bloom County collection Let’s just hope the 25 years of being lost will not be too much of a shock to him. Then there is the rumor that he locked himself inside his one bedroom apartment watching endless reruns of Seinfeld, Bugs Bunny, the Twilight Zone and Ice Station Zebra while eating a steady diet of cheese puffs until he went quietly mad and realized that his only back to sanity was through his artistry.Įither way, Trump barging full force upon the political scene threw some switches in his soul and brought him back to reality and to modern American civilization. Yet another said he joined the circus and performed as a lion taming clown trapeze artist, but gave it up because it never had the satisfying wildness that his cartoons had. He only quit when he found out the latest tunnel he was digging was to free Pablo Guzman. Or that could have just been the plot of a movie I saw once.Īnother said that he had joined a cult that lived underground in bunkers with elaborate tunnels going in all directions in preparation for any number of possible holocaustic disasters. One has it that he ran off with Brooke Shields to a desert island and had twenty five years of endless sex in paradise. One has to wonder what Breathed has been up to the past 25 years. Like Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead Breathed has risen Bloom County back from the deceased. I can very much imagine the humorous potential the great orange haired one can inspire in an artist. Well, it’s nice to know that something good came out of Trump’s announcement of his running, other than it messing up the Republican platform real good. He says he was inspired by Donald Trump’s running for President. One wonders why Breathed would return to his long forgotten cartoon after so many decades. Bill the Cat brought such manginess to the Sunday funnies that you were afraid to touch the paper for fear of getting ringworm. Opus’ homely and lovelorn images graced many a number of plush and plastic toys, his protuberance jutting outward into prominence (I’M TALKING ABOUT HIS NOSE!!!). And, yes, that includes and surpasses Garfield.īoth Opus and Bill the Cat became icons of the 1980’s. Combine the worst elements of every American cartoon cat there has ever been going all the way back to Krazy Kat when newspapers were born and you would produce Bill the Cat. If there ever was a unique cartoon character to illuminate the Sunday paper it was Bill the Cat. Wildly amusing and wildly drawn the series followed the equally wild adventures of Milo Bloom, a lost penguin named Opus and his side kick Bill the Cat. He only stopped making his cartoon for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS!!!īloom County, once one of the most syndicated cartoons in the US back in the 1980’s, will be soon be showing its multicolored face in the funny papers again. The Bloom County cartoon is back in print!īerke Breathed, beloved cartoonist of the once greatly beloved cartoon Bloom County, has returned from the dead…
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