‘Bloom County’ Comic Strip in Development as Animated Series by Fox

Meredith Jacobs February 15, 2022, 1:30 pm

An acclaimed comic strip is in development as an animated comedy.

FOX Entertainment, its Emmy Award-winning animation studio, Bento Box Entertainment, Miramax, Spyglass Media Group and Project X Entertainment have partnered to develop an animated series based on the comic strip “Bloom County,” created and written by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, screenwriter, producer and children’s book author Berkeley Breathed. Check out the full art from Breathed below.

Bloom County “centers on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.” It is co-written and executive produced by Breathed.

“At the end of Alien, we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world STUFFED with far worse,” Breathed said in a statement. “FOX and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the Bloom County gang, may they forgive us.”

Berkeley Breathed

Added Michael Thorn, President of Entertainment, of FOX Entertainment, “I was introduced to the brilliance of Berkeley Breathed and ‘Bloom County’ as a teenager. His signature blend of satire, politics and sentiment hooked me. Plus, I love Opus. Today, Berkeley’s smart and hilarious take on American culture is more relevant than ever. And, together with Bento Box, we’re thrilled to bring his unique ensemble of characters and social commentary to broadcast television.”

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“Bloom County” originated from Breathed’s first published comic strip, “The Academia Waltz,” from his student newspaper, The Daily Texan. Editors at The Washington Post then recruited him to do a nationally syndicated strip. “Bloom County” debuted in 1980 and appeared in more than 1200 newspaper worldwide, before ending in 1989, but Breathed then started posting new strips via Facebook on an almost daily basis in 2015.