Cutter John is a fictional character in the 1980s comic strip Bloom County by Berke Breathed. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. 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 Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American Cartoonist, children's book Author / Illustrator,
Cutter was a wheelchair-bound Vietnam War veteran and one of the county's most well-liked citizens. A wheelchair is a wheeled Mobility device in which the user sits The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia A veteran (from Latin vetus, meaning "old" is a person who has or is working in the armed forces Despite being somewhat childish and awkward at times, he was very popular with the ladies, particularly schoolteacher Bobbi Harlow. Bobbi Harlow is a fictional character in Berke Breathed 's comic strip Bloom County. Cutter also was a good friend to many of the animal characters of Bloom County, often role-playing Star Trek with them (using his wheelchair as the "Enterpoop").
In one story arc, he and Opus the Penguin were lost at sea (after Oliver Wendell Jones had converted Cutter's wheelchair into a hot-air balloon) while attempting to cause havoc at the South African embassy in Washington, D.C. (their goal was to turn the South African ambassador black). Opus the Penguin ( Opus T Penguin) is a character in the Comic strips and Children's books of Berkeley Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s Oliver Wendell Jones was the most recurring African American character in Bloom County and Outland, two Comic strips by The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D
Having blown off course and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, Cutter was captured by a Soviet submarine and held as a spy. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Opus developed amnesia during the incident and found his way back to the Bloom Boardinghouse, and told everyone what had happened once his memory returned. Amnesia (from Greek) is a condition in which Memory is disturbed Eventually Cutter was traded for Bill the Cat, who had apparently been moonlighting as a spy. Bill the Cat, or Bill D Cat, according to the final Outland strip is a fictional Cat appearing in the works of Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed He appeared much less often after that.
Cutter John is one of Breathed's oldest characters, first appearing in The Academia Waltz. The Academia Waltz was Berke Breathed 's first cartoon published daily from 1978 to 1979 in The Daily Texan at The (In those days his name was given as "Saigon John". ) His more familiar name is most likely a reference to the "Trapper John McIntyre" from M*A*S*H. For the Scottish radiologist see John Macintyre. For the American actor see John McIntire. M*A*S*H was a Medical drama / Black comedy produced by 20th Television Fox for CBS. While a major character in the first half of Bloom County 's nine-year run, his role was reduced to only occasional cameos for the remainder of that strip and its immediate spin-off, Outland. A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the Performing arts, such as Outland was a Sunday-only Comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. In the commentary in one of the Bloom County collections, Breathed observed that he dropped Cutter John from the strip because it was too artistically challenging and "frustrating" to draw someone sitting down in every panel of the comic. According to Breathed, a wheelchair-bound fan of the strip, upon hearing this observation, said Breathed "ought to try sitting in a wheelchair [himself] for real frustration".
He has yet to appear in Breathed's latest endeavor, Opus, though it is also set in Bloom County. Opus was a Sunday strip drawn by Berkeley Breathed for a period of circa five years from 2003 to 2008
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