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Hello fellow Bloom County fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing Bloom County again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
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Dang. I had forgotten how bland early bloom county was. I was pretty young at the point in time this was published, but just barely old enough to be able to read the funny papers. I loved bloom county, but I think my mind latched onto the later stuff more.
There's a lot of gentle, wry, observational humor going on in this period which directly flowed from Doonesbury as I recall it. "Bland" to some, maybe, but there was a solid, national audience for this stuff at one time.
But with the rise of MTV and the culture shifting so much and so fast in the 80's, I suppose Breathed gradually saw the writing on the wall, removing a good chunk of the subtlety over time.
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Would this be the first Sunday edition?
We've had a few now, I think this is the 3rd or 4th.