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Does anybody remember Bloom County?

angel

08:06 / 21.03.02

Not sure if this is the correct place to put this, but hey Moderator people please move it if you need to.

Anyway, when I was growing up in Canberra in Oz in the 80's, we had a Cartoon Strip in the local paper (The Canberra Times) called Bloom County. It was a satrical look at America (written by an American, I think) and the American political system. It featured a Penguin (Otis?) as it's main character and would as often as not end up being completely surreal - Fields of Dandelions as the new chill out space - for example.

Am I the only person to have experienced this excellent Cartoon? Please say it isn't so!

Angel

Cherry Bomb

08:28 / 21.03.02

You are not. The guy who wrote it was named uh, Berkley Breathe or something like that (I'm sure I'm getting it wrong, actually), and once he finished doing Bloom County he did another strip called "Outlands."

I actually have the last Bloom County strip in an album in my parents' basement at the moment, 'cuz you see I too was a fan.

MJ-12

08:30 / 21.03.02

ack. gak. phht.

angel

08:34 / 21.03.02

quote:Originally posted by MJ-12:
ack. gak. phht.

Never a truer statement made!

Ahhhh, Bill the Cat - Where art thou?

Mikaël

08:34 / 21.03.02

[ 21-03-2002: Message edited by: MiKL ]

Mikaël

08:34 / 21.03.02

Berkeley Breathed and Opus the Penguin

Berke Breathed, interviews here and there.

About lola granola

[ 21-03-2002: Message edited by: MiKL ]

angel

08:34 / 21.03.02

There is a god/deity/overarching force!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Mystery Gypt

20:22 / 21.03.02

ah yes, when i was little i remember having an opus t-shirt and, i think an opus stuffed animal. he was the ultimate downtrodden existentialist neurotic antidote to garfield the cat's hedonistic complacency.

and the character of the toddler computer hacker was pretty goddamn great too.

Baz Auckland

07:39 / 22.03.02

When I was a kid, my dad had every collected book of the strips. I read them all over and over...

..then about 8 years later, I read them again, and actually understood most of the jokes.

grant

13:47 / 22.03.02

I think I still have the last one, carefully clipped from the paper, still in a box somewhere.

I loved this strip.

I understand Breathed is doing kids' books now.

Captain Zoom

15:14 / 22.03.02

I've got all the collections, the "A Wish For WIngs That Work" xmas special on video, all his children's books and every xmas, I go out the week after and pick up the Opus ornament when it's on sale.

To say I am obsessed with Bloom County/Outland is probably an understatement. Steve Dallas recently showed up in the Liberty Meadows comic book, which I highly recommend to anyone who enjoyed Bloom County.

Zoom.

enough

06:31 / 23.03.02

Ack.

invisible_al

18:52 / 26.03.02

I only ever got to read some of the collected versions, but wow they were cool, like doonsbury but less up its own arse and funnier.
The guy in the wheelchair and all the animals were fun when they did the starship enterprise :-)
Ack...nuff said

Mazarine

21:13 / 26.03.02

I loved the strike. That was gold.

Math is for suckers!

00:52 / 27.03.02

probably the most under appreciated and intelligent comic strip ever published. and it was damn funny too.

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