Ack! Ack! It's Back!

During most of the 1980s, I was a devout reader of the comic strip Bloom County, produced by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed (whose last name rhymes with "method", as I once read).  In 1989, two years after winning a Pulitzer Prize, Breathed discontinued the strip, but for a few years used some of its characters in a weekly comic named Outland, and later in another weekly comic called Opus, named after a penguin who appeared in all three.  Today on Facebook, Breathed revived his first famous creation by releasing its first cartoon in 25 years, under the title Bloom County 2015.

Read more at the two-way (at NPR), The New York Times and Wired.

Most of the Bloom County characters are human, but there are several animals, including the above-mentioned penguin Opus (who allegedly looks more like a puffin than a penguin).  Another one is a disgusting, occasionally dead cat named Bill, who rarely speaks but instead makes unintelligible noises such as the "ack" used in this post's title.

While cleaning files off an old computer a while back, I found a picture of Bill.

P.S.  I have no idea if there is, anywhere in the United States or any other country, a county having the name Bloom.  The closest I can think of is Broome County in New York.