Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for February 08, 2024

Such subtlety. Such nuance.

This is Bloom County’s response to editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant’s criticism of Breathed winning the the Pulitzer. The little penguin is a satire of Oliphant’s “Punk”.

From Wikipedia: In 1987, Oliphant protested the selection of Berkeley Breathed for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Oliphant’s concern was that Breathed’s work “has, so far as I know, not appeared on one editorial page in the country.”45 Addressing the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to hearty applause, Oliphant represented the views of many of his colleagues: that the seriousness of editorial cartooning as a journalistic pursuit was at risk, and that the Pulitzer was encouraging the valuing of humor over political statement.

The irony is that post 2015 Breathed was/is basically a modern version of Oliphant, with “Trump sucks” in lieu of Opus saying something wistful and poignant.

Yes, yes he does. Did.

Liberty bibberty.

“Well, you never really did have a leg to stand on…”

No doubt, the jealous girlfriend used a dull carrot peeler for lasting effect.

I guess this is what you do when society has passed you by!!!

When I saw this strip in the newspaper, the editor changed the artwork to hide the “Reagan sucks” line.