![]() Breathed recently revived his comic strip "Bloom County" on his Facebook page. We’re back baby.”Ĭartoonist Berkeley Breathed and his son Milo sign copies of "Mars Needs Moms!" at Dutton's Brentwood Books on in Brentwood, California. Trump’s merely a sparkling symptom of a renewed national ridiculousness. Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County is coming to TV, with a new series planned for Fox.The series, which ran throughout the 1980s, blended absurdist humor with pop culture jokes and sharp criticism. Bush and Cheney’s fake war dropped it for a decade like a bullet to the head. “I had planned to return to Bloom County in 2001, but the sullied air sucked the oxygen from my kind of whimsy. “Deadlines and dead-tree media took the fun out of a daily craft that was only meant to be fun,” Mr. The post also said he would upload unpublished drawings and censored strips on his Facebook page “nicely out of reach of nervous newspaper editors, the PC humor police now rampant across the web… and ISIS.”īreathed gave more details on his return to comics in an email to The New York Times: “Yes, these two little events were organically connected,” he said in the post. In a Facebook post that appeared roughly ten days before “Bloom County” re-debuted, Breathed recounted a dispute with a newspaper editor shortly before he quit cartooning. In several storylines, “Bloom County” lampooned apartheid, took a stand for strikers, and poked fun at Donald Trump.īut Breathed had editorial differences with newspaper editors. Known for their lighthearted quirkiness, Breathed’s comics also addressed social issues. “Like my departed friend Douglas Adams used to say, the only part of deadlines I enjoyed was the whooshing sound as they sped by,” he wrote in an email to The New York Times. ![]() Breathed said his hatred of deadlines contributed to the decision to publish primarily online. “Bloom County” will now appear on Breathed’s Facebook page. It is the second and most famous of a series of comic strips by Breathed which feature the same characters, the others being The Academia Waltz (1978-1979), Outland. One of the iconic newspaper strips of the 1980’s, it ran alongside legends such as “Calvin and Hobbes,” “The Far Side” and “Doonesbury” before ending its run. Bloom County is an American newspaper comic strip written and drawn by Berke Breathed, running from Decemto Augand in a revived form since July 13, 2015. Comic strip fans woke up Monday morning to the news, posted as a single new strip on author Berkeley Breathed’s Facebook page. The new comic is labelled “Bloom County 2015” and shows penguin Opus awakening from a nap, turning to his human friend Milo and asking, “How long was I out?” ![]()
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