BLOOM COUNTY RETURNS

[rdking647]

please please please.

and thank you donald trump for being such an ignorant ass that berkley couldnt resist




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/12/1401582/-BLOOM-COUNTY-RETURNS

[shenmue]

1. Ye-es!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. OMG..How marvelous...how timely!!!!

[think]

3. Ack!!!!

[awoke_in_2003]

12. Bill the Cat

is saner than any GOP candidate

[Fuddnik]

25. A good friend of mine ha Bill the Cat tattooed on his arm!

He even says "Ack!"

[Starry Messenger]

4. Omg for real?

That strip did wonders for my political views as a kid.

[rdking647]

5. from his facebook page

[SomethingFishy]

6. He used to rake Trump over the coals back in the day..

This should be Epic!

[Unknown Beatle]

7. I have the entire collection of Bloom County comic books.

Brilliant!

More please!

[gregcrawford]

8. "Bloom County" was the modern-day "Pogo"

And I'm old enough to remember Walt Kelly's brilliant strip. Now if we could just coax Bill Watterson out of his man cave... I SO miss "Calvin & Hobbes."

[tekriter]

18. Right there with you...

I have a bunch of the old Pogo books, including a SIGNED First Edition of the first book - Pogo.

I was raised in a politically involved Democratic family, and my dad was the one that got me started reading the daily strips back in 1968 or so.

[gregcrawford]

26. A SIGNED Pogo?!!?

What a treasure! I wish I could remember all the characters' names. I remember Albert, of course, but I can't recall that sanctimonious old preacher whose dialogue balloons were always written in Old English. Now I gotta Google it all!

Being a professional cartoonist myself, I have great admiration for the Old Masters like Kelly, and the Mad magazine geniuses like Mort Drucker and Jack Davis. The newer luminaries like Carter Goodrich, though he never did a strip to my knowledge, Peter DeSeve, and of course, Bill Watterson inspire me as well.

[Feeling the Bern]

21. And Gary Larson too.

[DebbieCDC]

9. PLEEEEEEZE be true!

Steve Dallas and Opus and Bill the Cat, how I've missed them all!

[graphix4change]

10. I can't wait...

Bloom County planted the seeds for political satire in me as a teen. I learned the difference between the political parties and who was introduced to progressive politics through this strip while in middle school. It was "Colbert" long before Colbert...

[DinahMoeHum]

11. "U Stink, But I (heart) U" - Remember that?

U Stink, But I U

[progressoid]

29. Ha! I had forgotten about that!

Pretty good sound for a floppy piece of plastic.

[heaven05]

13. great

[hifiguy]

14. OMG!

Be still my heart. How I have missed that strip!

[SoapBox]

15. Whoa...we would be so happy.

We need Bloom County and it's...wisdom.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

16. Is this for real?

Or have I been sniffing too many dandelions?

[bluedigger]

17. I think I just soiled myself - better check.

[Feeling the Bern]

19. I grew up on Bloom County. When Bloom County, Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes stopped

I put the comics section down.

Walt Kelly was a bit before my time.

That was great! Thank you, Berkley!

Only Foxtrot and Pearls Before Swine (especially when Waterston came back to help that week) are the only good ones.

[neeksgeek]

20. YAY!!!!

[burrowowl]

22. YES!!!

[smiley]

23. Holy Shit!

my all-time favorite!

[malthaussen]

24. Presumably the opportunity is too great to miss.

There were some good strips in that comic. Derivative, yeah, but that doesn't bother me as much as it does some. The more nasty, cynical, sarcastic comix we can have, the better.

-- Mal

[appal_jack]

27. Breathed made one of the most poignant statements on wealth inequality...

Breathed made one of the most poignant statements on wealth inequality I have ever seen in a mainstream media outlet via this strip (one of a series where Donald Trump's brain had been implanted into Bill the Cat):





-app

[yodermon]

28. I hope he makes some changes to his portrayal of women

this go-round.
Sorry for the thread-fart.