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December 8, 1980 was an interesting day….the world lost one legendary recording artist, but it gained a penguin. Bloom County, cited by many comic strip aficionados (like yours truly) as one of the best strips ever made, first appeared in papers the day John Lennon was shot. Its opening gag, about an old man named Major requesting Burger King serve him a burger without a bun, barely resembles what the strip would ultimately become, but as Berke explained to the New York Times in a new interview, he was winging it as he went.
“Nobody had the faintest idea what comic strip I should concoct, least of all me,” Berke confesses. “They didn’t care. All I’d ever drawn were college stereotypes, which were the only characters I was instructed NOT to use. What to do? I...
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