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Bloom County

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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:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

As I noted in yesterday’s strip, Binkley’s father is Frank here, but the Wikipedia article lists his name as Tom. This could be on reason why this story line appears in none of the books.

Tom Binkley, Binkley's father, usually distraught over his son's behavior, his own divorce or mid-life crisis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County

Breathed makes many retcons over the years to his characters. Sometimes a throw away becomes popular and they need a better story. Or it is simply possible he forgot the character’s name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Love the deep dive into Lore, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He looks so pleased as he says "No Frank".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Small town resentments, bottled up inside....this is the best day of his life.