Bloom County was my favourite strip ever, so I hope there’s some truth to this.
GOD AINT-IT-COOL-NEWS GIVES ME A [size=6]FUCKING HEADACHE[/size]!!! I CAN’T FIGURE OUT HOW [size=6]HARRY “FAT FUCK” KNOWLES[/size] GOT SO MUCH FUCKING INFLUENCE IN HOLLYWOOD. SOMEONE I [size=6]ONCE[/size] WORKED WITH SAID IT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT SAID [size=6]TITANIC[/size] WAS GOING TO BE [size=7]ANY GOOD[/size], AND EVER SINCE HOLLYWOOD HAS [size=6]BEEN CHASING [/size]HIM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE [size=6]NEXT BIG THING[/size] WILL BE. WTF [size=6]EVER[/size].
And his forums blow too. :wink:
I found Bloom County to be the perfect answer to the Reagan Years. Forget Doonsbury. The best savaging of Reagan America was through Bloom County.
Maybe Berkeley’s heard the call: W is in charge and America is in trouble. Time for the Superfriends! Opus, Milo, Bill (the cat), Steve (is he still gay?) Dallas, and the others!
You didn’t have to forget Doonesbury. Garry Trudeau took two years off from writing the strip. For the 1984 election if you didn’t use Bloom County to make you comic-strip satirical point, then you just plain weren’t making that point (I had to do a couple papers on the '84 election in college using cartoons to make my point. Everyone else got to use Doonesbury as the easy out, but I just had Bloom County. Ack! Phthhhpt!)
I always thought the best thing about Bloom County was the universality of its critiques, and how funny they were (wimp or shrimp? WIMP OR SHRIMP? or Louie, Louie!). Unlike Doonesbury, it could be enjoyed without sharing the convictions of the author, which are still something of a mystery to me.
Maybe Berkeley’s heard the call: W is in charge and America is in trouble. Time for the Superfriends! Opus, Milo, Bill (the cat), Steve (is he still gay?) Dallas, and the others!
I hope so.