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(80) Bloom County. Milo Bloom reads as Opus
the penguin walks past wearing a wig, 1989.
Published by the Washington Post Company, February 10, 1989.
Ink and opaque white over blue pencil underdrawing.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-09132 (80)
Bloom County, a popular and frequently outrageous strip by Berke Breathed, satirized American society and political life from December 8, 1980, to August 6, 1989. Here, Milo Bloom and Opus the penguin discuss Opus' dated wig. Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (b. 1957) began drawing comic strips at the University of Texas at Austin. He attracted the attention of national newspaper editors, who recruited him to create the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bloom County. Since it ceased publication he has drawn two additional strips with many of the same characters, Outland and Opus. |