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Bill the Cat
Bill the Cat
Not to be confused with Billy the Cat. Billy the Cat is the title of a Franco-Belgian comic strip and an animated cartoon available through the American Broadcasting Company, amongst others
Not to be confused with Billy the Cat and Katie. Billy the Cat (later Billy the Cat and Katie) was a Comic strip in The Beano.

Bill the Cat is a fictional cat appearing in the works of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed, beginning with the comic strip Bloom County in the 1980s and continuing in Outland and Opus in the following decades. WikipediaManual of Style (spelling, articles should conform to one overall spelling style of English typically the one most linked to the article topic (if it is geographic A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American Cartoonist, children's book Author / Illustrator, A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Bloom County was an American Comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989 The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Outland was a Sunday-only Comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of circa five years from 2003 to 2008 Bill also appeared in some of Breathed's illustrated children's books, including A Wish for Wings That Work, which was also made into an animated Christmas television special, and also on greeting cards and other sundry merchandise. A Wish for Wings That Work An Opus Christmas Story was a children's book by Berkeley Breathed that was published in 1991. Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists writers and weavers of folklore A greeting card is an illustrated folded card featuring an expression of friendship or other sentiment Merchandising refers to the methods practices and operations conducted to promote and sustain certain categories of commercial activity The cat's most frequent spoken sentiments are "Ack!" and "Thbbbt!" The former is a result of his regularly choking on furballs, the latter sound an approximation of the "raspberry". Blowing a raspberry or strawberry or making a Bronx cheer is to make a noise signifying derision (and/or silliness made by sticking out the tongue between the lips

Bill the Cat is commonly seen as a parody of Jim Davis' Garfield. A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject James Robert " Jim " Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American Cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. Breathed has described Bill as his attempt to create a character so repulsive that it would have absolutely no merchandising potential. [1] Naturally, Bill the Cat trinkets and figurines have sold in great quantity.

Bill the Cat was inspired by a colorful economist named Bill Moore. Moore was a graduate assistant at the University of Texas in Austin during the 1970s, and one of Berke Breathed's teachers. Recognizably wild-eyed (and one legged), Moore also became one of Breathed's friends.

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Biography

Bill was raised in Dubuque, Iowa, left for New York to become a film star, leaving his girlfriend, Sally, behind. Dubuque is a city in the US State of Iowa, located along the Mississippi River. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous His film roles include the leads in Orangestoke: The Legend of Bill, Lord of the Monkeys and Terms of Bill's Endearment. During this period, he drank heavily, used illegal drugs, and "free-based Little Friskies", until his friends helped him to recover. On September 30, 1983, Bill drove his Ferrari into a cactus at 140 miles per hour, dying instantly in the crash (the media, not wishing to divulge the true nature of Bill's death, claimed that he died of acne). Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Ferrari SpA is an Italian Sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy A cactus (plural cacti) is any member of the Spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas Acne vulgaris (commonly called acne) is a Skin disease caused by changes in the Pilosebaceous units (skin structures consisting of a Hair follicle The only part of Bill that was salvaged from the wreckage was his tongue, which young genius Oliver Wendell Jones used to clone Bill and bring him back to life. Oliver Wendell Jones was the most recurring African American character in Bloom County and Outland, two Comic strips by In the latter months of 1984, Bill's bid for the American presidency was effectively ruined by his decision to run off and join (and end up leading) the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult in Oregon, only to be "rescued" and deprogrammed several weeks later by a humorous application of the Ludovico technique (by forcing him to watch reruns of Leave It To Beaver. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) "Rajneesh" Chandra Mohan Jain (रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन (December 11 1931 – January 19 1990 also known as Acharya Rajneesh Oregon ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Deprogramming refers to actions that attempt to force a person to abandon Allegiance to a religious political economic or social group This article refers to the psychological conditioning technique from A Clockwork Orange. Leave It to Beaver is a 1950s and 1960s family-oriented American Television Situation comedy about an inquisitive )

Bill spent time as an unintelligible rock star who played lead electric tongue with his heavy metal band Deathtöngue, later Billy and the Boingers. The tongue is the large bundle of Skeletal muscles on the floor of the Mouth that manipulates Food for chewing and swallowing (deglutition Billy and the Boingers is a fictional heavy metal rock band from the comic strip Bloom County, originally known as Deathtöngue. Billy and the Boingers is a fictional heavy metal rock band from the comic strip Bloom County, originally known as Deathtöngue. Bill got rich when their song "U-Stink-But-I-♥-U" became a jingle for Wheat Thins, but he did not share the wealth with his bandmates. A jingle is a memorable Slogan, set to an engaging Melody, mainly broadcast on Radio and sometimes on Television commercials. Wheat Thins are a popular baked snack cracker found in North America and distributed by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Kraft Foods Although Bill was the front-person of Billy and the Boingers, the band excluded him and disbanded when it became public that he spent his nights staying up late, reading the Bible with a nun. Billy and the Boingers is a fictional heavy metal rock band from the comic strip Bloom County, originally known as Deathtöngue. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin A Nun is a Woman who has taken special vows committing her to a religious life After this incident, Bill became the televangelist "Fundamentally Oral Bill", parodying televangelists such as Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Oral Roberts. Televangelism is the use of Television to communicate the Christian faith Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born James Orsen Bakker (born January 2, 1940, in Muskegon Michigan) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God Granville Oral Roberts (born January 24, 1918, in Ada OK) is an American neo-Pentecostal Televangelist and is also a

Bill was accused of treason for sending secrets to the Soviet Union with the unwitting assistance of his lover Jeane Kirkpatrick. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick ( November 19, 1926  &ndash December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent Secrets he sold included: secret antiperspirant, the secret formula of Coke, the secret of the Sierra Madre, and the secret of George Bush's appeal (the secret being that he doesn't have any appeal). George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 He was exchanged to the Soviets for accused spy Cutter John. Cutter John is a Fictional character in the 1980s Comic strip Bloom County by Berke Breathed. While in Russia, he was responsible for the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and was traded back soon afterwards. Chernobyl (as transliterated from the Чернобыль) or Chornobyl (as transliterated from Чорнобиль tʃɔrˈnɔbɪlʲ was a city in northern The reasons he stated for returning to the US were, as he put them, "to once again walk the green grass of freedom" or (less politically correct) "to make some dough. "

Bill the Cat twice won the National Radical Meadow Party's nomination to run for President of the United States, in 1984 and 1988, despite being dead in the first instance, and despite having a vocabulary that mainly consisted of "Aack!" he lost twice, once because of coughing up a furball on Connie Chung. The National Radical Meadow Party (sometimes known as the American Meadow Party or simply the Meadow Party') was a fictional Political party from The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Constance Yu-Hwa "Connie" Chung Povich ( born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist who has been an anchor and reporter In spite of this political affiliation, he embarked on a torrid love affair with Jeane Kirkpatrick, and being used as the primary source for an illegal cat-sweat-based baldness cure. Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick ( November 19, 1926  &ndash December 7, 2006) was an American ambassador and an ardent His brain was replaced with Donald Trump's (who had been hit with his yacht's anchor while sunbathing in New York Harbor). Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American Business magnate, Socialite, Television personality, and New York Harbor, a geographic term refers collectively to the rivers bays and tidal estuaries near the mouth of the Hudson River in the vicinity of New York City

Bill the Cat has returned to comics in Berke Breathed's latest strip, Opus. Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of circa five years from 2003 to 2008 Given his ostensible death and revival by tongue cloning (a la Sleeper), his carcass was suggested as the source of the recent BSE (aka "Mad Cow Disease") epidemic. Cloning in Biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as Bacteria, Insects Sleeper ( 1973) is a futuristic Science fiction Comedy Film, written by directed by and starring Woody Allen. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( BSE) commonly known as Mad-Cow Disease ( MCD) is a fatal Neurodegenerative disease in Cattle Later, he was chosen as the new mayor of Bloom County. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government He got the message when he was playing Garfield at a mall promotion (the child in his lap asked her father if Garfield had died). Garfield is a daily-syndicated Comic strip created by Jim Davis. Mayoral efforts for Bill and Opus involved forcing low-jeans teenagers to wear suspenders. Bill, however, lost an election a few months later because of an affair with Paris Hilton.

Trivia

Further reading

Rovin, Jeff. The Illustrated History of Cartoon Animals. New York: Prentice Hall, 1991. ISBN 0-13-275561-0.

References

  1. ^ Breathed, Berkeley, One Last Little Peek: The Final Strips, the Special Hits, the Inside Tips 1980-1995, Little, Brown and Co. , 1995. "The gag, honestly, was to draw a cartoon character that had zero - or even minus - merchandising appeal . . . a character whose very saliva-dripping face would send hordes of consumers screaming from their mall gift stores. "
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