Bloom County
A political commentary and satire starring the residents of a small-town boarding house. Characters include Milo, a ten-year-old newspaper editor, his pop culture-obsessed friend Binkley, womanizing lawyer Steve, wheelchair-bound veteran Cutter John, Bill the (mostly braindead), and Opus, a naive and optimisitic penguin. Throughout the strips they run for president, form heavy metal bands, protest unfair treatment of comic strip characters, die, come back to life, and generally lampoon 1980s politics. It is available online at gocomics.com.
Appeal: Political humor, 1980s pop culture references, absurdism, talking animals, satire adults.
Art: Dynamic expression and composition, fine use of color in Sunday strips.
Textual style: Sarcastic, ironically juvenile, loquacious.
Other: Steve and Cutter John starred in Berke Breathed's earlier comic The Academia Waltz. Breathed followed Bloom County's run with two related strips, Outland and Opus.
Awards: Breathed won the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning in 1987.
Breathed, Berke. Tales Too Ticklish To Tell: Bloom County. Boston : Little, Brown, 1988. Print.
No comments:
Post a Comment