Bloom County C/D?

for some reason that strip feels particularly relevant these days.

isn't it funny how bill suddenly learned to talk when he became fundamentally oral bill?

Nothing but urges from hell!

it finally occurred to me, about 20 years too late, that the introduction to this book was probably not actually written by the person it was supposedly by:

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In 10th grade I stole "Dear George Will' for a newspaper our English teacher asked us to produce on our own

I found my Billy & The Boinger flexi yesterday, inside a completely different book I was planning to ebay

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"I was walking down the street and somebody hit me with a tree."

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I really need to pick up that complete collection.

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has there been a "best comics strips of all time" poll? bloom county would def. be my number 1

Would be a boring poll, would go like
1. Peanuts
2. Calvin and Hobbes
3. Bloom County
4. Far Side
5. Krazy Kat (Morbs throws up his hands when this is revealed so low)
6-100. Nobody cares

6-100. Nancy

http://nonperfect.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mafalda-politica1.jpg

i would definitely vote in a "best comic strips of all time" poll

I drew an Opus skeleton recently (bad photo):

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omg

Ha i think i saw that on FB, so righteous.

Fucking brilliant.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/deletedbloom853.html

a collection of strips that never made it into the TPBs

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been meaning to pick up the Complete whatever sometime.

I had one of the collections when I was about 10 and thought it was awesome even though something like 90% of it went right over my head

So classic then. Bloom County>>>Doonesbury

Haha thanks for those, I don't remember most of them.

I have the first library collection but haven't made it all the way through yet

need to pick up all those paperback collections again.

couldn't find the C. Everett Koop strip.

Feb 1989, I think it's from

I actually broke down crying at much too old of an age when they cancelled the strip. I had all of the collections and understood a lot of it. Or at least, I was prompted to ask my folks about the stuff I didn't get. That reminds me, I should probably get around to wikipediaing Gary Hart or o these days.

I hadn't really had anything I loved cancelled on me before, is why. Like, I managed to grow out of Dukes of Hazard before they pulled the plug on that etc. etc. You move through phases pretty rapidly as a kid, and Bloom County was one of the first things that I had stuck with for a few years.

when they cancelled the strip.

those bastards

breathed's awful later work ought to make anyone glad he stopped doing BC while we still had fond memories of it.

nothing but urges from hell!

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oh how things changed

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Complete digital library of Bloom County / Outland for $16
https://www.humblebundle.com/books

imho this aged incredibly poorly

I like it but it's purely nostalgia, I can't see it appealing to anybody who didn't live through the 80s

^^^ yup

I'd've thought Donna Rice jokes would age like a fine wine.

I mean, it's basically like watching almost any '80s SNL political sketch.

"Well, I'd be the President's little dumplin' anyday!" Phyllis Schlafly said earlier.

reading this as a kid (having not really lived through the 80s) is largely responsible for nobody getting any of my jokes in elementary & middle school

I do wonder if it's kind of like Doonesbury, in that respect? As a lad I would read compendiums of the 70s Doonesbury and kind of laugh at different things (Zonker, primarily) and then wonder who Jeb Macgruder was. (tbf I gleaned a lot of info about recent American political history from these strips)

i generally do okay on Watergate jeopardy categories due to doonesbury paperbacks
"that's GUILTY, GUILTY GUILTY!"

seeing an old bloom county here and there always makes me smile, haven't tried to sit down and actually reread an entire book tho. most of the references didn't mean much more to me than "random funny name" as a kid, and i think it might have been better that way.

Ha, I cut this one out of the newspaper. I may even still have the color version in some scrapbook in the attic.

Joke's not that funny, but it cracked me up that the "Doonesbury" of Bloom County was called "Those Darn Cats".

in many cases the funny names were the actual extent of the humor, e.g. Caspar Weinberger

Start over!

Joke's not that funny, but it cracked me up that the "Doonesbury" of Bloom County was called "Those Darn Cats".

― pplains, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a reference to this:
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