Incredibly funny

Berke Brethed is great. Anyone here hunted the mighty "Basselope"?

I remember when that cartoon first came out. It was in 1988 during the election. At that time, the "liberal call" was "dukakis, dukakis" Other than that the lines are the same. I think I saved a clipping of that somewhere. It was always one of my favorites.

I liked that he seemed willing to make fun of everyone and everything. It wasn't like he was trying to skull-f you with his agenda. Plus, he could actually be funny... not to mention just plain wierd. There was one comic where he had a big color spread of what happened when he drug tested the cast of the comic. It was something like (very rough approximation):

-Steve Dallas: 75 vodka martinis. Status: Clean.
-Bill the Cat: 1/2 bowl of tender vittles, 2 fish heads, 794 POUNDS OF BOLIVIAN COCCAINE. Status: Dirty, but too important to fire. Ignore.
-Berkely Breathed: 1 ham sandwich, 1/2 of a marijuana brownie he ate back in 1972. Status: death penalty.

Bill the Cat

Ack.

that put a smile on my face.

Bloom County is one of the best cartoon strips ever. EVER.

I'm saving each installment of Breathed's new Sunday-only strip 'Opus' (which continues his tradition of comic genius, with some dern-good artwork to boot.)

www.berkebreathed.com