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Endlessly classic.

http://www.bloomcountystrips.com/thppft.gif

Got a new book every year for Easter, had a stuffed Opus, and I still wish I had that "Billy & The Boingers" flexi-disc.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, Portnoy always made me laugh, random violence and all.

http://img457.imageshack.us/img457/9803/moralssquad3ch.jpg

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

"A desperate choice for desperate times" has never sounded so apt.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

As any fule no, I still have my stuffed Opus:

http://static.flickr.com/23/30769451_c0f9bb023e.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

"Feminine protection? What is that? A chartreuse flamethrower?"

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

is that the tip of the iceberg, ned?

― gear (gear), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Portnoy looks like Cliff from Cheers.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

x-post: All too accurate, I fear.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

I wonder at what it was in particular that brought Berkeley Breathed to the point where he said to himself, "fuck it, it's time to go to work again"...

xpost: i can't see that graphic for some reason, ned

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

oh wait, now it loads...

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

What's the series of orange and black CDs on that one shelf?

― Dan (Important) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

My (comparatively miniscule amount overall of) John Coltrane reissues. At least I've got Ascension.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

"WHAT'S THIS?! MARXISTS AT OUR SOUTH GATE?! WHY IT MUST BE A COMMUNIST HORDE!"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

those look they were impulse buys

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/centpic.gif

― Will (will), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mathies.com/blog/bloomcounty-oliver.gif

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

those look they were impulse buys

HUR HUR HUR

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Who's this Jim Ferguson impressionist?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

He needs to learn how to draw Portnoy.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

The fact is that Opus looks more like a puffin than a penguin.

CLASSIC

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Friday, 20 January 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

obviously CLASSIC, tho it was even funnier before i knew anything about any of the people being made fun of - breathed might've made up that iacocca dude (and donald trump!) for all i knew when i was 10!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

"You can lead a yak to water but you can't teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke."

gobsmackingly classic; so much of my humor is BC-indebted.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

the one i quote the most is probably the one where milo and binkley argue over whether coke is better than pepsi, only to conclude that both taste like MALTED BATTERY ACID.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

The Steve Dallas trying to quit smoking sequence, culminating with Opus hiding in the toilet, brought young me to tears and still almost does.

― adam (adam), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

so classic. i have the flexi!!

― maura (maura), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I have it too, unsurprisingly. Mucky Pup was the backing band, I think?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

J.D. -- ditto.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

George "Mr Sulu" Takei went on to marry Marie Osmond.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

What made me think of this was the scene where Steve Dallas is sitting on the couch in the underwear, talking to the TV.

I can't find that strip online, tho. Something about the guy on tv asking, "Friend, do you suffer from a weak will and a lack of confidence?"

Steve laughingly agrees, and it goes from there, to the point where the guy on tv starts making hilariously pointed & specific attacks on Steve. Steve stands up and says "now wait just a second," to which the guy on TV replies, "oh LORD spare us, sit down"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

i have the flexi too. and a south american llama

― no bones, Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

YSI?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

i loved bloom county as a kid, was so disappointed when it ended.

and then calvin & hobbes came around and i haven't thought of it since...

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

"Why, I MUST JUST TAKE A FIRE HOSE TO 'EM!!! THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING!!!"

Classic.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Hello.
I'm a Boinger:

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RO4L5SWJ6C5Q340TTH1PGM5EV

You Stink, but I Love You:

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23SWNILNV652N3JQD9ANAXWMEX

BTW, classic classic classic. The standard that all newspaper comic strips should be held to. Outland? Not so much.

By the way, I just managed to post these on the Cat Power/Fiona Apple/Beth Orton thread on ILM. Because I am dumb.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:49 (twenty years ago)

Steve Dallas (tied to chair): "How many minutes since my last smoke?"
Opus: "37."
Steve Dallas: "I'm feeling in control...mind over matter. I think I'm gonna ace this!"

.......

Opus: "38."
Steve Dallas: "Give me a fuckin' cigarette before I stick you in a blender."

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Two other favorite quotes:

"HERE'S BREAKFAST FROM AUNT OPUS!"

"It says in the Bible, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'."
"So we CAST that first MUTHA!"

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

john justen i kiss you a million billion times

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Dud. The worst of Trudeau, a total misunderstanding of what made Herriman magic, some faux-Schulz, all blended and hochhhhed up by the only good character, Bill.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

See, I always thought that the worst of Trudeau was all of the times he FORGOT TO BE FUNNY AT ALL.

I love the early stuff, but at this point, Doonesbury is just a terrible reminder of what it used to be.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Bosh, Doonesbury just had a few stellar weeks of B.D. talking slantwise with the therapists.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I actually haven't talked about the strip itself, have I? Megaclassic of course. First encountered it in 1981 or so and was deeply bemused, but for a long while in upstate New York I had to live by the books as they came out since when I moved there in 1982 no local paper carried it. Thankfully I returned to California and saw out its run there, and still have the final strip around somewhere.

Outland was enjoyable enough, Opus I've barely seen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

oh wow thanks for the songs

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

this was the strip that got me reading, back in 1985/86 when I was in 3rd grade:

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/1374/opustv3iu.th.jpg

Unlike Doonesbury, Breathed was always more inclined for actual slapstick and absurdity(e.g. TVs ran around a lot)

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:03 (twenty years ago)

holy shit, i haven't heard these songs in 20 years. "I'm a Boinger" sounds like Theater of Pain-era Vince Neil fronting the Plimsouls. This is far more punk than I ever remember.

"U Stink" seems more like pre-synth Van Halen, only with far more vocal sneering.

Your comments?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/Images/fav_strip2_full.jpg

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

(womp! womp! womp!)

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

"brains behind the spandex"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/thefeenom/blm860502.gif

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

i actually went searching for that specific strip some months ago when i signed up for a membership to ucomics.com. i absolutely can't believe i wound up finding it in all the dailies from 5-plus years, yet there it is. steve's body movements make me lose it every single time.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

I loved "Bloom County" as a kid. It really influenced some of my stuff when I still harbored the idea of becoming a cartoonist.

However, it has not aged well. I'm not just talking about the Reagan references either. When you read the books from start to finish, there's a lot of material that feels rushed and not quite well-thought out. When I read the Breathed interview where he talks about finishing the panels on the airplane flying the strips from Iowa to New York for publishing, I thought, "Yup. And it sure did show in spots."

It started out as a "Doonesbury" rip-off (complete with Duke imitation and forgery talking-to-the-mirror strip) and ended with the Outlandish adventures of a Basselope and Reagan Ann. But in the middle there, it was pure D classic.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:56 (twenty years ago)

the deathtongue tour thru the desert, where the RV bounces off the road:

"HE WAS SLEEPING!"
"I WAS NOT! MY EYELIDS WERE JUST RESTING!"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9451/opusxmas9mg.th.jpg

I figure the recent ones will be better in collected form.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

there's a lot of material that feels rushed and not quite well-thought out. When I read the Breathed interview where he talks about finishing the panels on the airplane flying the strips from Iowa to New York for publishing, I thought, "Yup. And it sure did show in spots."

yeah, or where he talked about literally taping his eyelids open to finish strips in the early years.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't until the fourth panel that I realized that the above strip wasn't from 1982.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

i did lose some respect for breathed after i realized how derivative he was - someone in the comics journal once said that calling him funny was like calling a shoplifter a snappy dresser.

also dud: his frequently voiced opinion that charles schulz should've retired 30 years before he did - pretty rich coming from the guy who's "retired" more often than the fucking who!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:30 (twenty years ago)

Why shouldn't you call a shoplifter a snappy dresser? They have to know what to shoplift, ferchrissakes!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

"Gorbachev sings tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!"

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

"Drug humor in bad taste, Roger."
"YOU read it, Tom!"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

"PENGUIN LUST! Nothing but URGES FROM HELL!"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I love the early stuff, but at this point, Doonesbury is just a terrible reminder of what it used to be.

Have you been following B.D.'s arc at all, John? I never thought that a storyline about someone having their leg blown off could be that funny.

(Mark has become incredibly tiresome and should be killed, though. Dissing Cole Porter = bullet to the forehead.)

― Dan (Also, Alex's College Application Process Has Been Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry, Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:29 (twenty years ago)

It suddenly occurs to me that Bloom County's "no actual joke" style is directly responsible for "Get Fuzzy" and now I hate it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

roffle

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

at least when bloom county didn't have a joke it was funny!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

"...Casper Weinberger."
"Start over!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

"Go to your room, son. I'll be in with the ants and molasses presently."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

"Guns don't kill people. People kill guns. From outlaws... Anyway, it's all there in the letter."
"Verbatim."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Dan, you probably know this, but the Cole Porter strips are reruns. And I think there's more of Garry in them than Mark, specifically, but yeah, they're totally off.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I knew he'd done this particular riff before but I couldn't remember if this was a direct rerun or not.

Still, this is the run that made me actively hate the character Mark Slackmeyer. Now I want him D-E-D dead.

― Dan (Preferably With Knives) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:29 (twenty years ago)

i used to think bloom county was totally brilliant. and i'm never going back because it ain't, i don't wanna know.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

trust me, you don't.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

a 'zany' dud

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 21 January 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

gobsmackingly classic; so much of my humor is BC-indebted.

http://www.creators.com/0108/bc/bc0110g.gif

?????????

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Sunday, 22 January 2006 06:39 (twenty years ago)

I covet Ned's Opus doll.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 January 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I'll never forget my first BC strip: a Sunday one where Steve Dallas is discovered singing "Billie Jean" in the shower while imagining himself decked out like MJ and pulling all the accompanying moves.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 22 January 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

j otm re: 'trust me, you don't.' loved it in middle school, though.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 22 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

"What this campaign needs is a windfall straight from heaven."

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Idolator, your friend.

"U STINK!"

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

so classic. i have the flexi!!
-- maura (maura), Friday, January 20, 2006 5:43 PM (Friday, January 20, 2006 5:43 PM) Bookmark Link

i had the flexi when the book came out in 1987 or whatever, i recently came across a used copy of the book w/the flexi still in it and snapped it up post haste.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

omg I never heard this

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well now you can, etc.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

hurray I just salvaged my stuffed Opus the other day (he needed a washing)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

you savaged your stuffed Opus???? ewww

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Did John and Exene ever sing as wrenching a statement of marital compromise as "U Stink But I Love You"?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Mucky Pup. Was there ever a New Jersey punk band more suited to the listening habits of 10-year-old boys? I think not. I think not.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

Love Bloom County so much. Have the Flexi-disc still in it's relevant book. I never kept up with the newer ones, hopefully they'll be out on book soon.

Just Classic.

― kv_nol, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

what, no penguin copilot?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5QI4ESioUM&feature=related

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 9 December 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

no one cares about animated Opus? :(

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

Not me. Some things just aren't meant to be made.

Don't wanna see Calvin & Hobbes animated either.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

I liked A Wish For Wings That Work, but it's a one-off. Just enough, no more.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 04:26 (eighteen years ago)

The animated Opus movie got axed this last summer, according to the Wiki.

Opus' voice in the special didn't work for me. I remember taping that special upon its first airing.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com/Bloom%20County.gif

― kingfish, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 22:14 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

The spitting image of Steve Dallas just walked in the library. (No cigarette but he had the sunglasses.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 November 2008 23:27 (seventeen years ago)

before or after the Gephardtization?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 7 November 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

Pre. It was very 1982.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 November 2008 23:31 (seventeen years ago)

they just published the very last Opus strip

― obama cyber leader (kingfish), Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:50 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

Entire collection to be reprinted:

....The Bloom County Library will also contain a series of “Context Pages” sprinkled throughout the volumes. These pages will provide perspective for the reader, presenting a variety of real-life events and personalities that were contemporary at the time of original publication.

so that today's young'uns will know who Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Casper Weinburger were.

― kingfish, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

So long as the real-life personalities are presented in the same 'cruddy photocopy' fashion as in the original (which was definitely one of the best things about it).

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 February 2009 20:29 (seventeen years ago)

Bahaha they should do context pages with every comic collection. "For context, Jiggs is a racist caricature of a horny racist."

― i'm shy (Abbott), Friday, 6 February 2009 20:56 (seventeen years ago)

"For context, Cathy expresses dissatisfaction with her body image in a swimsuit on a regular basis. This reflection of a negative Zeitgeist can be further interpolated via cultural expressions in a variety of liminal media across the Western world in particular in reaction to Cold War-era anxieties (taken from "I Found That Presence Medium-Rare: Hypertextuality and Expressions of Carnivorous Doubt in Monochrome Still Animation Form on the North American Continent 1950-1990 CE")"

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:00 (seventeen years ago)

"In other words, 'Ack!'"

― i'm shy (Abbott), Friday, 6 February 2009 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

Thank you all for observing this playlet entitled "Adorno Meets a Student."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 February 2009 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

seven months pass...

Breathed talks about stuff and things.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:17 (sixteen years ago)

“The major regret in my cartooning life is I didn’t get to know him,” Breathed said, pointing up to the framed art from a “Peanuts” strip signed by the late Charles Schulz. “He sent me that as a get-well gift when I broke my back. This was a time when I was a pariah to the comics old guard. It was an opening, and I let the opportunity pass. Just a few months ago, I went up and visited with his wife, Jeannie, and I was tearful leaving. I would have loved to have been able to call him my friend.”

In a small way I feel the same, I always wanted to have sent Schulz a brief notice of thanks and appreciation for his work while he was still alive, and I always regretted not doing so. Something like this, if I were in Breathed's shoes, would probably hang with me the rest of my days.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

Also:

Breathed also wishes he could connect with Bill Watterson, the “Calvin and Hobbes” artist who was Breathed’s fan, friend and rival but who now does everything he can to stay off the grid. “There are people searching for him, reporters, documentary-makers and fans, but he doesn’t want to be found,” Breathed said, sounding like the last member of a dysfunctional tribe. “I have a box of letters from him. You should see the drawings on them. He is a once-in-a-century talent.”

DAMMIT. (In that I am jealous beyond belief, as jealous as I am of Bob Mould having long since heard all the stuff Kevin Shields has been doing over the years but hasn't released.)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:20 (sixteen years ago)

I was a fule for Far Side. I will stan for Doonesbury any day of the week. I found Calvin and Hobbes endlessly classic. Bloom County? I never understood the attraction. It rose half an elbow above mediocrity imo.

― Aimless, Saturday, 3 October 2009 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

BB talks about movies and things. 'It was all better back then' etc.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 20 November 2009 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

Friggin' awesome!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OVJj4UaLbrk/R4CPq0KnBFI/AAAAAAAAAfE/7mMU-1nhmYU/s400/Banana+Junior+Mac+Mod.jpg

― kissogram powers (Abbott), Saturday, 24 April 2010 03:52 (sixteen years ago)

Hahah nice

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 April 2010 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

It's adorable.

― ô_o (Nicole), Saturday, 24 April 2010 04:12 (sixteen years ago)

great pic!

for me its:

01. achewood
02. bloom county

― kclu, Saturday, 24 April 2010 04:51 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/Screenshot2010-08-12at54944AM.png

― r.i.p. soup (kkvgz), Thursday, 12 August 2010 10:00 (fifteen years ago)

two months pass...

New interview...

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/47326

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 23:39 (fifteen years ago)

RUSSELL: Could "Bloom County" even exist in syndication today?
BREATHED: "No" is the short answer. Papers would be flummoxed by "Bloom County" now. It was meant for youthful eyeballs -- and there be none of those ogling newspaper comic pages now. Old-timers chuckling over "Doonesbury" and "Beetle Bailey" are pretty much all that's left. They clip out their favorites, stick 'em on the fridge, and put the rest under their parakeets to shit on. The good ol' days.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)

RUSSELL: Steve Dallas' arias of foul behavior were always my favorite part of "Bloom County." I believe you've said he was based somewhat on a real person. Did that person ever catch on?
BREATHED: No, no. Steve Dallas was a synthesis of all the frat boys I went to school with. There was a suicidal kid at U of Texas that came to believe that he was Steve Dallas and I was listening through his walls. I'd wake each morning to find him sleeping on my front porch. 'Twas my first hint as to the can of worms that I'd opened with cartooning. And their weird power. Then.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

Etc. etc., read the whole thing...

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 23:42 (fifteen years ago)

Sullivan posted that excerpt. It's true though: how many yutes still read the funnies? To be fair, no one read them in high school or college either.

― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 November 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

Ha. Just remembered the sequence where Steve decides to quit smoking.

WHERE'D YA HIDE'EM????

― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 November 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

The image of him stuffed with Ding-Dongs (as it were) = genius.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 November 2010 23:55 (fifteen years ago)

That suicidal kid waking up outside his door: what a story!

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

Mr. Breathed on the 'Mars Needs Moms' movie.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 March 2011 19:27 (fifteen years ago)

I saw this thread pop up and now my brain is going, "In a Bloom County/dreams stay with you . . ."

― Du Musst Calamari Werden (Phil D.), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

i know someone who worked on this film (the last film the effects house made before they closed up). he said it bears little to no resemblance to the book, unfortunately.

― akm, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:38 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I know more about the 80s from Bloom County than from anything else. (I was only alive for 11 months of the 80s.)

― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

silby otm

― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:34 (fourteen years ago)

I learned more about eighties politics during the eighties from Bloom County than from anything else.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

^ this. And I try to work in "I bet it's blow through others' toes, like those of...Caspar Weinberger" at every conversational opportunity.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:41 (fourteen years ago)

young me learned about Watergate from Doonesbury

― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

I was probably the only jr. high school student in the 80s asking their parents who Chuck Colson was

― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

I was thinking about Deathtongue's Dr. Scholl's Odor Eaters-sponsored tour the other day.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

My choice of halloween costume in 1983 was largely due to Bloom County. I went as James Watt. I was eleven.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

Watt with the KISS makeu?

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

That is awesome. xxp

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:45 (fourteen years ago)

OPUS: PICKED TOO FAT

― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:48 (fourteen years ago)

HE GOT RICKETS FROM CATS

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

xp Nope, just Watt, no Kiss makeup. I wore glasses anyway, so I dressed in a suit and put on a bald wig. To make sure people got that I was Watt, I wore a button that said, "Watt, me worry?"

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:49 (fourteen years ago)

Did anyone get the costume, or did people ask you who you were all evening?

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

Parents in my neighborhood got it, and thought it was funny. There was a lot of, "Bob, get out here! Check it out, there's a kid dressed like James Watt!" None of my classmates knew who Watt was, though.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

"The Peterson's kid is dressed like an iguana!"

― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:09 (fourteen years ago)

I wonder how much the completed reprinted hardcover series is going to be.

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:15 (fourteen years ago)

They are all out I think; $30/vol on Amazon, five volumes http://www.amazon.com/Bloom-County-Complete-Collection-1980-1982/dp/1600105319

― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:30 (fourteen years ago)

Do they have the Billy & the Boingers flexidisc y/n

― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:47 (fourteen years ago)

'the truth, steve, is that 'knight rider' is actually a children's program.'
'CAN'T BE! can't *@#!* BE!'

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 06:52 (fourteen years ago)

"the truth, Binkley, is that you look like a carrot."

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:10 (fourteen years ago)

I busted out "gonna be a raucous caucus" a few weeks back on FB for obvious reason - and was shocked by the number of people who got the reference

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:11 (fourteen years ago)

I liked it when Breathed would pull out the physical violence, which was almost inevitably someone getting hit on the head with a stick or paddled.

Basselope gap, for example.

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:17 (fourteen years ago)

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b203/maarts/rosebud4.gif

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

The toon that made me love the strip, back in 3rd/4th Grade:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/156980933_1ea5a376db.jpg

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:36 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Got the Complete Library Vol 1 from the local library(which has copies of all of them, Hooray!), and it's interesting to see BB try to get his footing in the early years. There are a _LOT_ of early strips that were never reprinted before, probably with good reason. Plenty of Pogo in here, too.

Example: Limekiller & Bobbi Harlow were far more prominent early on, before Steve Dallas showed up. Opus only appears briefly as Binkley's new pet penguin, then doesn't pop up again for another 6 months, and even then it's a while until they name him.

Far more Reagan and GOP jokes than you remember, too.

Also: Binkley's mom is shown.

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:55 (fourteen years ago)

I reread Tales Too Ticklish to Tell last week; I still get off on the penguin lust episode.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:59 (fourteen years ago)

First even printed Academia Waltz strip. Somebody grew up reading a lot of Trudeau and Fieffer:

http://www.geektress.com/images/bloomcoearly.jpg

http://www.geektress.com/images/bloomcoheader.jpg

the first sunday color logo

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:03 (fourteen years ago)

There's an entire run from 1982 of Milo getting in trouble for a class presentation on "Penguin evolution", which has him going on trial for not including the competing idea of "scientific penguinism".

Sometimes I get the idea that even if we waited for all the Reagan-era assholes to finally die off, stupidity is so hardwired into the human brain that this kinda shit will never leave us.

http://www.invisiblelizard.com/2006/03/penguin-lust.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mPljjiQDXjU/SXChp5x2E2I/AAAAAAAAAlg/gsAkttMxGpg/s1600/Penguin+Lust.jpg

One of BB's standard tropes I always enjoy was characters resting objects on their heads, which then could be ejected for heightened comic effect.

Disappointing Google search results:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penguin-Lust/126374367398021?sk=info

Penguin Lust is the supple interaction that occurs in a penguin's heart when it sees an object of desire. This physiological phenomonon has brought about much controversy over the last several years but we believe it is a beautiful thing that should not be discouraged. Penguin Lust is primed for the upswing. Are you ready to LUST LIKE A PENGUIN?

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:08 (fourteen years ago)

I loved how Portnoy, Hodge Podge, Mr. Binkley, and the rest all got Brylchreemed pompadours when born again

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9lOTZ1T8XQ/SwtAXEkdKCI/AAAAAAAAADw/FIfooHpid3w/s1600/Tales+Too+Ticklish+to+Tell+01.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9lOTZ1T8XQ/SwxvRrDC-oI/AAAAAAAAAD4/_iMntGO33Us/s1600/Tales+Too+Ticklish+to+Tell+02.jpg

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:25 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.animenation.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/wholegang.gif

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:27 (fourteen years ago)

wow, whaddayaknow, the Falklands really _are_ covered with penguins:

http://www.seabirds.org/penguins.htm

― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 20:31 (fourteen years ago)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/1/1267440566186/Steve-Bells-If...-01.03.2-001.jpg

― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

One of BB's standard tropes I always enjoy was characters resting objects on their heads, which then could be ejected for heightened comic effect.

This was one of the things I loved about Bloom County. Breathed had a sense of timing and pace that I hadn't seen in any other comics other than Krazy Kat, Calvin & Hobbes, and Peanuts. There was a frenetic energy to Bloom County that no other newspaper comic had at the time.

― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:24 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

http://www.johnsjottings.com/images/opus_big.jpg

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:03 (thirteen years ago)

Alfred, I won't be mad if you post those every day.

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:04 (thirteen years ago)

What I always loved about that one is how in the final panel you can just see Opus facing them, pants about his ankles, and can just sense a 'oh of COURSE' look on his face even though there's no way to actually see it.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:06 (thirteen years ago)

I wonder what Breathed thinks of what Trump eventually went on to become

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:06 (thirteen years ago)

Margaret Thather >>> Diane Sawyer

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:07 (thirteen years ago)

Thatcher too

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:07 (thirteen years ago)

Margaret, that's her

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:09 (thirteen years ago)

"hello? Sudden Success Services, Inc!"

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:11 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Ephemera/BloomCounty1988_SR_Aid.jpg

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:12 (thirteen years ago)

munch munch

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

TS: Guy Gardner's personality flip v Steve Dallas's

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:14 (thirteen years ago)

Gephardtization?

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:19 (thirteen years ago)

"Start over!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:21 (thirteen years ago)

TS: Guy Gardner's personality flip v Steve Dallas's

Dallas's - Guy Gardner worked well for both lols and playing with the nascent team's dynamic the first time, but it got diluted on reuse, and especially when played for dumber lols by clumsier hands than Giffen & DeMatteis

― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:02 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.davart.net/awg/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/BloomCountyLiberalHunt.jpg

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/smwance/12390179/477237/477237_original.gif

I forgot that these are getting reprinted online daily:
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/

― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

http://i44.tinypic.com/20rl4is.jpg

― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:22 (thirteen years ago)

"Might you, good sir, have the latest issue of Ivory?"
"Shoo! I run a progressive news stand here."

― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:58 (thirteen years ago)

http://assets.amuniversal.com/a4a14bd05dbe012ee3bf00163e41dd5b

http://assets.amuniversal.com/f14999905dbf012ee3bf00163e41dd5b

― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:50 (thirteen years ago)

I never noticed Hodgepodge's lapel pin before

― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:50 (thirteen years ago)

omigod I had "Send him little Bobby's college fund" in my head the other day.

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:52 (thirteen years ago)

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?

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago)

Nothing but urges from hell!

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:15 (thirteen years ago)

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:

http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/508/21165075/934641.jpg

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:21 (thirteen years ago)

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

― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:29 (thirteen years ago)

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

― sug night (sic), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:03 (thirteen years ago)

― sug night (sic), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:04 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:43 (thirteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://roasterboy.com/pictures/bloom.county.orginal.science.gif

― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:48 (thirteen years ago)

I really need to pick up that complete collection.

― Fieri-brand sausages into my and your ready holes (silby), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:51 (thirteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/10/bananajr6k.jpeg

― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:15 (thirteen years ago)

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

― sleepingbag, Monday, 21 January 2013 06:28 (thirteen years ago)

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

― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:30 (thirteen years ago)

6-100. Nancy

― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:10 (thirteen years ago)

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

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:14 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Mordy, Monday, 21 January 2013 15:17 (thirteen years ago)

I drew an Opus skeleton recently (bad photo):

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/382942_10151176663836428_1545233927_n.jpg

― I wish every slot machine had EAT THE RICH printed on it (Crabbits), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

omg

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:11 (thirteen years ago)

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

― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:12 (thirteen years ago)

Fucking brilliant.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:55 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

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

a collection of strips that never made it into the TPBs

http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/blmd851224.gif

― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 06:48 (thirteen years ago)

been meaning to pick up the Complete whatever sometime.

― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 06:53 (thirteen years ago)

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

― paolo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 11:35 (thirteen years ago)

So classic then. Bloom County>>>Doonesbury

― paolo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 11:35 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 11:50 (thirteen years ago)

need to pick up all those paperback collections again.

― akm, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:08 (thirteen years ago)

couldn't find the C. Everett Koop strip.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:11 (thirteen years ago)

Feb 1989, I think it's from

― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:30 (thirteen years ago)

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.

― how's life, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:25 (thirteen years ago)

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.

― how's life, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:31 (thirteen years ago)

when they cancelled the strip.

those bastards

― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:16 (thirteen years ago)

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

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:17 (thirteen years ago)

nothing but urges from hell!

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:18 (thirteen years ago)

http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/blmd850911.gif

oh how things changed

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:46 (thirteen years ago)

four months pass...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pk0wdYAiFCY/TuTx81ZYNoI/AAAAAAAANLE/eRW9q7ARR5o/s1600/BloomCountVol2_19820929small.jpg

― Ze Meadow Morals Squad (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:56 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/F3FoXiX.png

― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:06 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

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

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:56 (eleven years ago)

imho this aged incredibly poorly

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:58 (eleven years ago)

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

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:00 (eleven years ago)

^^^ yup

― DJP, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:00 (eleven years ago)

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

― Eggnog On My Kangol (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:04 (eleven years ago)

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

― Eggnog On My Kangol (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:05 (eleven years ago)

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

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:07 (eleven years ago)

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

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:09 (eleven years ago)

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)

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:11 (eleven years ago)

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

― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:13 (eleven years ago)

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.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:16 (eleven years ago)

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".

― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:19 (eleven years ago)

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

― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:19 (eleven years ago)

Start over!

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:20 (eleven years ago)

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:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/doones0685.gif?uuid=tu2tIt5SEeCEdSrrIfoXWw

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:22 (eleven years ago)

Where in that does it say "Those Darn Cats" ?

― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:24 (eleven years ago)

It doesn't; it's just a reference to Trudeau's Sinatra-bashing strips (which went on for a week, got dropped from a couple of papers, and were actually big-ish news at the time).

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:25 (eleven years ago)

lol at the jane pauley joke; she's married to garry trudeau.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:27 (eleven years ago)

lol @ "alleged human"

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:28 (eleven years ago)

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

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:00 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't live through the 80s but it's the only way I know anything about the 80s

― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Thursday, 12 March 2015 01:44 (eleven years ago)

I reread several of my old books last year -- they've aged fine. The animals help.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:16 (eleven years ago)

i was like to die laughing when i was 9 and reading the steve dallas quitting smoking saga for the first time

― adam, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:31 (eleven years ago)

luckily i survived

― adam, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:32 (eleven years ago)

Excellent example of undated story ("WHERE'D YOU HIDE'EM????" *bouncing on toilet semi-nude while tied to chair*)

Also: Opus' nose job.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:43 (eleven years ago)

Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu)
Posted: March 11, 2015 at 8:58:27 AM
imho this aged incredibly poorly

Bullshit

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:53 (eleven years ago)

yeah, it's always been terrible

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:57 (eleven years ago)

I feel sad for you

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 March 2015 07:08 (eleven years ago)

Oh my God I bought this immediately.

One of Breathed's greatest gags I will love until I die are characters repearedly whapping another one on the head to emphasize some point.

A Basselope gap!

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 12 March 2015 08:36 (eleven years ago)

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=83465

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=83927

http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2010/03/25

― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 12 March 2015 08:45 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Middle of the road, man, it stanks
Let's run over Lionel Richie with a tank

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:09 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/xIfFAZ9.png

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:41 (ten years ago)

― cat-haver (silby), Sunday, 12 July 2015 19:03 (ten years ago)

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1004028256294594

― example (crüt), Monday, 13 July 2015 14:30 (ten years ago)

Bloom County with computer lettering = gtfo

― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:11 (ten years ago)

hopefully he hires some kid to put these on a real website

― cat-haver (silby), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:17 (ten years ago)

Binkley?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:20 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

dud: the Big Bang/cosmology/theoretical physics skepticism, the preponderance of new strips that are just "we're living in a nightmare world but ya know it's the little things that make life worth living!!"
classic: most everything else

― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:32 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

I recently started a new job... in a meeting of my workgroup, everyone went around the table, introduced themselves, and announced what they had “wanted to do when they grew up,” as kids. (Yeah, I know.)

When it was my turn, I said that I had wanted to be a lawyer — entirely because of Steve Dallas from “Bloom County.”

It landed with a thud. Not a single face in the room, whether Gen-Xer or Millennial, showed even a glimmer of recognition, comprehension, or interest.

― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:13 (six years ago)

I do know some kids who like reading the comic pages in the paper, what's left of them. And to be fair, I have no idea what comics they are reading.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:15 (six years ago)

I guess I was expecting a chorus of appreciation from at least others around my age.

― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 6 July 2019 18:08 (six years ago)

tough room, eh?

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 6 July 2019 18:11 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/45/6f/0e456f75fe3d4df42aa1f7c2b438d41f.gif

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:42 (six years ago)

itt: penguins that can't tell an adage from a metaphor. and can't tell an adage, either.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:48 (six years ago)

one year passes...

I’m on vacation this week but this was uploaded to FB on the 11th. I hope you’re enjoying these as much as me! pic.twitter.com/ZoUiD5TitN
— Bloom County (@bloomcounty) July 13, 2021

Is it weird that he's drawing Calvin & Hobbes? (not really Calvin so far)

I find it weird because he's doing them Watterson-style, and because they're so beloved and missed, it feels like forbidden wish fulfillment.

― lukas, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:58 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Figures I can’t find a clean online scan or a Bloom County strip that references Ivana Trump today

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:29 (three years ago)

one year passes...

feel like there was an expansive sunday-type comic in which opus and milo careened through crazy dimensions until opus made it crash to a halt with milo accusing him of being a literalist

cannot find it online; have i imagined this?

― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 January 2024 05:04 (two years ago)

don’t remember but sounds like a calvin & hobbes strip too

― sknybrg, Sunday, 14 January 2024 08:06 (two years ago)

Yep! It's in one of my BC books

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2024 12:26 (two years ago)

one year passes...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/65/d0/ee/65d0ee42eaf8dfa0e4e300b5ce2948df.jpg

― birdistheword, Friday, 25 July 2025 00:31 (ten months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/E41K0XT.jpeg

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 July 2025 00:35 (ten months ago)

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