Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for February 13, 2025

Not just in the cartoons. Welcome to the American way…

Exploitation be thy name.

I would but my Congressman is a Trumplican and can’t read.

I followed a crappy looking van into a Walmart with what it looked like Nancy in it’s logo that was a Utz distributor. Utz not doing well?

Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang could fill an entire closet.

Christmas keeps resurrecting “Deck us all with Boston Charlie.”

I happen to have a set of assorted Pogo character cups. Howland Owl, Albert Alligator, Porky Pine, Beaure G. Hound and the ever loving Pogo Possum.

Still timely …

The task master was OBVIOUSLY a plumber before he scored THIS gig.

Money, money, money …

I really hate it when people “high road” you, but in the realm of actual problems in the world, this ranks at the absolute bottom. You don’t like the new person? Stop reading it. You don’t want the cartoon continuing without you if you’re the creator? Put it in your contract. If they “force” you to do it, then don’t sign the contract.

Gil Thorp, anyone??

Breathed should have drawn Scarlett O’Hara as the character immortalized by Carol Burnett in the “Gone With The Wind” segment on her show, complete with the curtain rod…

Is Scarlett a reference to “Scarlett” (1991) or “The Wind Done Gone” (2001)? No way I can see the pub date on this comic.

The net had much broadband & weak content. They couldn’t monetize it until they sold the whole thing as ad space. Then they sold ad free content, then put ads on that to sell the “Premium” package. Basic extortion, pay me to go away. I didn’t buy or sell, or even do selfies, so fb decided I wasn’t a real person & deleted me. Yet, the ravens still surf the wind through the palm trees, & mating turkey buzzards do an amusing impersonation of biplanes.

Good ol’ American Dream – Money. and Lots of it.

That actually looks a lot more like Jerry Scott’s version of Nancy than Ernie Bushmiller’s!

I didn’t even remember that they had tried to continue or bring back Pogo post-Walt Kelly.

No worries; AI will make it unnecessary to hire human imposter writer/artists.

I never saw Pogo from the beginning, I wish they would rerun them again.

This comic was posted last week on the “I go Pogo” facebook page, with samples of the post Walt Kelly strips.

I actually thought the new Nancy was cuter and funnier than the original.

I enjoyed Pogo as a kid but never understood all the political talk. I just liked the way they were drawn. My Pogo Playmates were my favorite toys. You could even slip a gum-ball machine football helmet over a few, like Churchy and I think Howland. Now that I’ve bought and read some of the old books, a lot of the dialogue still is too high brow (or low brow, with the Southern accent) for me. I liked the slapstick comedy like when Albert hit a baseball and Church blew up first base when he got there. Out? I touched first base- all over me!

I go Pogo!

Comic creators did not own their work for a long time. The newspaper syndicates and comics publishers made sure of that. While web comics may not pay as well, nobody can claim them unless the creator deliberately signs their work away.