Squeeee!
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Here’s the scoop:
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2015 – Don’t look now. But Berkeley Breathed – the iconoclastic creator of Opus the Penguin, Bill the Cat, and that legendarily bizarre cartoon universe known as “Bloom County” – may be about to resurrect his popular onetime newspaper comic strip online.
It all began with a tantalizing online statement by the cartoonist on Facebook, dated July 6, 2015. The cartoonist broadly hinted he’d be gradually releasing a small treasure trove of hitherto secret ‘toons that were effectively airbrushed or even 86’d by the squeamish, Snowflake editors and publishers of today’s sorry crop of slowly imploding daily newspapers.
“Dearest gentle patient Facebook BloomCountynickers ( my term ): watch this space carefully in coming days. I have raided my own files for some rare gems–art, unseen drawings, censored strips etc–. I can’t wait to publish here… nicely out of reach of nervous newspaper editors, the PC humor police now rampant across the web… and ISIS. To wit…Check the following, below [referencing the cartoon at the head of this article]: I spent an hour a few years ago, discussing that sketch of a Burqini with the publisher of the Washington Post (while standing in the produce section of my Santa Barbara Trader Joes.) We–this is true– negotiated the style of her hair. That strand sticking out. As it might offend muslims. Because the Muslim staffers in his office were offended. So we came to an agreement as to how much hair could be sticking out and how messy it looked.
I quit cartooning for good two months later. Yes, these two little events were organically connected. I’ll never get that happy little hour of happy TJ’s shopping back.”
News like this is actually unsurprising. Self-important, petty and overpaid editorial gatekeepers will fearlessly print any vile slanders or disgusting, un-sourced rumors that fly in over the transom so long as they smear the likes of G.W. Bush, Sarah Palin or Dick Cheney.
On the other hand, these same social justice warriors routinely tremble at the very thought of triggering an embarrassing virtual raid by the PC Police; or, still worse, a rash of editorial beheadings courtesy of their friendly, self-appointed neighborhood Islamofascist enforcers. Breathed apparently got tired of the whole predictable routine, the kind of unreasonable, corrosive and petty editorial censorship that can quickly rob humor and satire of its critical edge.
snugglebunnies!
I liked Bloom County back in the day (along with Garfield) but the successors Outland & later Opus never really scratched me quite the same way.
I love Breathed for the laughs he gave me when I was in grade and high school but over time either my sense of humor changed or his did.
i like the coffee cups
Don’t miss this one: http://commdiginews.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OpusAwakens800.jpg
If the point of this exercise is to play smashmouth with the SJWs, I don’t care what else he skewers.
Also, it looks like his sense of humor is fully intact. Lord knows the world has provided him plenty of material.
Beyond the delightful nostalgia overload, this is looking pretty good.
Meanwhile, this fool is still plying his trade:
https://twitter.com/scottekaufman/status/622079344664576000
I saw that SEK thing and also the pounding he’s getting.
God bless Twitter, say I.
Oh hell, just clicked through to the tweet, Pablo. Do I really want to see what SEK deems “transphobia in comics”?
Damnation … so I click over to SEK’s FB page where he is crowing about how Ben Shapiro was “defeated” by some dragqueen who did little but call Ben “a little boy” and to “cut that out or you’ll go home in an ambulance.”
Paleo
Maybe both. But I’m hoping his being freed from nervous lefty editors he can resharpen his wit.
Michael Ramirez got canned from LATimes, but I bet he’s being seen by a lot more eyeballs these days.
Breathed is a reflexive commie of course, but I never felt that he lost his sense of humor like that hack Trudeau did. The fact that we’re seeing some pushback from the left against SJWs is heartening.
i hate tranny thor so much
it was on a poster on my train for like two months
the pic was tranny thor versus ultrom
make it stop
*ultron* i mean – which is a feisty robot that hates america
i hope he took away tranny thor’s hammer and bonked her on her dickless self-mutilating tranny head to where she was like omg I’ve made bad life choices
Squat somehow manages to be an ever bigger douchnozzle. He really is a specimen.
he’s very dedicated to his principles
and also his facial hair
a man cannot serve two masters