This is Bloom County’s response to editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant’s criticism of Breathed winning the the Pulitzer. The little penguin is a satire of Oliphant’s “Punk”.
From Wikipedia: In 1987, Oliphant protested the selection of Berkeley Breathed for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Oliphant’s concern was that Breathed’s work “has, so far as I know, not appeared on one editorial page in the country.”45 Addressing the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to hearty applause, Oliphant represented the views of many of his colleagues: that the seriousness of editorial cartooning as a journalistic pursuit was at risk, and that the Pulitzer was encouraging the valuing of humor over political statement.
This is Bloom County’s response to editorial cartoonist Pat Oliphant’s criticism of Breathed winning the the Pulitzer. The little penguin is a satire of Oliphant’s “Punk”.
From Wikipedia: In 1987, Oliphant protested the selection of Berkeley Breathed for the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Oliphant’s concern was that Breathed’s work “has, so far as I know, not appeared on one editorial page in the country.”45 Addressing the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists convention to hearty applause, Oliphant represented the views of many of his colleagues: that the seriousness of editorial cartooning as a journalistic pursuit was at risk, and that the Pulitzer was encouraging the valuing of humor over political statement.