Doonesbury and Bloom County

Doonesbury has been brilliant since it started. Quality has dipped occasionally (the eighties were hard for Mr. Garry Tradeau, one senses) but he keeps coming back. Bloom County was very similar--but not exactly. Berkeley Breathed a more surreal cast (including Opus the Penguin), and never quite gelled the way one hoped. But it still had it's brilliant moments.