This is it! This isn't where Opus was born into the strip, but this is where Breathed made a conscious choice to focus on him after being just a throwaway joke about Binkley six months prior.
It's my boy, and I get to watch him grow up again.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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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!
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Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
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The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
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after being just a throwaway joke about Binkley six months prior
Strip for reference: 1987 June 26
Edit: Hang on a sec, 1987? Was one of these strips posted with the wrong date?
Yep, Bloom County ~~was long gone in 1987~~ (nevermind, had it wrong, they had two years left before Outland in 1990), I think the OP of that strip just made a typo because they also post Calvin & Hobbes daily, which has a similar but different time frame. They've made the same mistake before, no big deal. S'posed to say 1981.