Was a singular concoction of the Breathed brain. Opus the Penguin,Ī harried flightless waterfowl who grew into the strip's definitive character,
Penny borrowed, Breathed minted up a few of his own. "Bloom County's"Ĭommunist cockroaches were plainly borrowed from Gilbert Shelton's " Fat Breathed's influencesĬould also be found in the underground comix of the 70's. The geography of "Bloom County"Ĭould be traced back to "Doonesbury's" Walden Pond. Was clearly a stand in for "Doonesbury's" Duke, himself a comic version With new fruity angles, in the late 80's.) The aforementioned Steve Dallas Used (up until Trudeau took a breather and then reintroduced the strip, Breathed appropriated the flat side view that "Doonesbury" Gerry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" was big influence, both in charactersĪnd style. To say that "Bloom County" wasn't heavily indebted to comic creations The augmenting the role of the American comic strip to do things that Own family, but mostly because it was unique. Why? Certainly because it was funny,Ĭertainly because it had a cast of characters you came to love as your "Calvin and Hobbes" cast matureĪnd hilarious eye on the trials of childhood.Ĭountry survived, and even thrived. To blow people away with its tangentialism. And the early 80's saw several new strips introduced to the comics That whore!) "Peanuts" still actually made sense. (Would Blondie haveĪ secret liaison with "Bloom County's" resident skirt chaser, Steve Dallas? Yet another reminder of his continuing impotence. Were there: Dagwood Bumstead glared at the young upstart, silently cursing To be at the top of the hierarchy of funny sounds, the SNORZZLST$ETRGUFF!!!Īrrived in 1980, to a comics page of stiff competition. Grew to guffaws, and those guffaws grew to the sound that everyone knows
It definitely got a chuckle.Īnd over the years those chuckles grew to laughter, and that laughter Something that was callingĭay later I gave "Bloom County" another chance. Yes, it seemed derivative of other artists,īut there was something unique about it as well. Throughout the rest of the day, I found my mind wandering back to this You may busy yourself by tidying the house." "I've told you never to look me directly in the eyes.Ĭarry me to my bedroom and I shall commence re-reading my entire collection "What are your plans today, are you going to." You believe this shit, it looks like fucking 'Doonesbury'?!" Shit looks like 'Doonesbury'!" I said while scooping down that morning'sĬheerios and gazing at the comic page of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. My reaction, at the age of ten, when I first saw Berkeley Breathed's "Bloom
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