Bloom County Comic Strip (1980-1989)

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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.

This community is for Bloom County and associated media from 1980-1989, the life of the original strip.
As this is a re live the media as it was released community, do not post strips that were released after the date of the most recent strip posted (the day's date in 1982 for 2025, 1983 in 2026 etc).
Additional media posted should be limited to 3 items per day as to not spam. If you have more items to post beyond that add it to your post rather than making additional posts.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by nocturne@slrpnk.net [M] to c/bloomcounty@sopuli.xyz

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Wait, is this the origin of the "he died of acne" line?

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago

I am fairly certain this leads into the starting story lines of Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. As for that line, I'd it is used later, that would be my guess as to its origins.

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