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Berke Breathed - Bloom County Daily Comic Strip (Washington Post Co., 5-2-1983)

Location: Breathed, Berke (Bloom County)
Artists: Berke Breathed (All) , Berkeley Breathed (All)

Location: Breathed, Berke (Bloom County)
Title: Berke Breathed - Bloom County Daily Comic Strip (Washington Post Co., 5-2-1983)*
Artist: Berke Breathed (All) , Berkeley Breathed (All)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Comic Strip
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 276
Likes on CAF: 15
Comments: 8
Added to Site: 7/16/2024

"This Time, Why Not The Worst?"

That was the slogan for the National Radical Meadow Party's presidential ticket of Bill the Cat and Opus in Berke Breathed's Bloom County strip in 1984!

Here's a very memorable, relatively early daily from the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip. It features the comic's most popular and enduring character, Opus, before a late 1983 re-design that made him look less literally like the penguin he is supposed to be, trying out his status as the Meadow Party's 1984 VP candidate as a pick-up line!

I feel like this particular strip has been reprinted or has otherwise been used online as it is very memorable to me, and not just from reading it in the paper back in the day. Really happy to pick this one up for the collection in this election year!

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Stephen F Member Since 2005

Posted On 7/16/2024

Memorable indeed! Great early Bloom County. Congrats!

John C Member Since 2014

Posted On 7/16/2024

Look, a Prius for sale, cheap!

David Mandel Member Since 2004

Posted On 7/16/2024

Perfection!

Marcus Wai Member Since 2005

Posted On 7/16/2024

Pretty cool what actually bridges the gap between people, as it is definitely not politics.

Mark Levy Member Since 2004

Posted On 7/16/2024

Before C&H there was Bloom County - and Opus!

Ted Latner Member Since 2005

Posted On 7/16/2024

That's a classic strip! Congrats!!

Brian Peck Member Since 2003

Posted On 7/16/2024

Great! Love those early Opus strips. Congrats!

Rick W Member Since 2017

Posted On 2/16/2026

Berkely's magnum opus!

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Berke Breathed - Bloom County Daily Comic Strip (Washington Post Co., 5-2-1983)

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