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!
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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.
The Three Mile Island nuclear facility accident in Pennsylvania, USA, had happened in 1979, which was recent memory at the year of publication 1982.
Of course the release of radiation was nothing compared to the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in the then-Soviet Union a few years later in 1986.
The radiation that comes from sigarettes is pretty heckin' insane. And it's in your face.
I am very glad you can no longer smoke inside public places in the states any longer. Now if vaping would get banned the same way, and smoking in doorways to buildings.
In my opinion all public smoking should be banned
I'd love this too, but it could cause significant backlash from current smokers. I think the most practical solution might be a gradual ban on the sale of cigarettes, e.g. no one born after 2010 will be allowed to buy cigarettes.
That would lead to the same result, just over a longer amount of time. That's my preferred kind of approach to a ban