The Resume

(June 21, 1957- )
Creator of 'Bloom County' comic strip

Why he might be annoying:

He was raised a vegetarian.
He never went to school.
He earned money by carving nude caricatures of local politicians out of tar balls.
He ended Bloom County by saying 'I have grown stubbornly affectionate toward my characters, and I have little desire to see Opus, Bill the Cat, and others disappear from my life. But after ten years of squeezing Bloom Countians into postage stamp-sized stories, I thought it might be more comfortable for all concerned if we took a powder from the daily pages.'
He enjoys catching lizards and spelunking with blindfolds.
Bloom County ran for only nine years.

Why he might not be annoying:

He created Opus the Penguin, Bill the Cat and Rosebud the Bassalope.
He ended Bloom County classically.
He had eleven best-selling cartoon collections with nearly seven million copies in print.
He received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning (1987).
He dealt with things in a very funny way.
Bloom County was popular enough for Microsoft to use as one of their Windows' themes.
He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.

Credit: Myth Man 28

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Born on the First Day of Summer [June 21st] (Ranked: 1957)
• Cartoonists
• Celebrity Children's Authors
• Children's Book Authors
• I am an Atheist
• I Attended University of Texas-Austin
• Mustaches
• PeTA Loud Mouths
• Profiles 4751-5000 (Ranked: 4837)
• Starbucks ‘The Way I See It’ Quotations

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 11 Votes: 18.18% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 29.41% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 29 Votes: 44.83% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 84 Votes: 69.05% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 43 Votes: 51.16% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 82 Votes: 48.78% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 123 Votes: 54.47% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 238 Votes: 46.64% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 287 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 633 Votes: 45.02% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 775 Votes: 56.39% Annoying