Editing Bloom County (section)

==End and spinoff strips==
Breathed decided to end the strip in 1989.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kahn |first=Joseph P. |date=May 7, 1989 |title=Cartoonist is quiet on plans to move out of Bloom County |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/24859879/cartoonist_is_quiet_about_plans_to/ |newspaper=[[Daily Record (Morristown)|Daily Record]] |publisher=Morristown Newspapers |location=[[Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey|Parsipanny]], NJ |volume=2 |issue=164 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> In keeping with the continuity of the Bill the Cat/Donald Trump story line, Trump "buys out" the comic strip and fires all of the cast. In the strip's final weeks the cast found new "jobs" with other comic strips. A "goodbye party" was held over the course of the week where characters talked about joining new strips. Portnoy and Hodge Podge get jobs as janitors behind the scenes at ''[[Marmaduke]]''; Steve Dallas joins the cast of ''[[Cathy (comic strip)|Cathy]]'' and attempts to pitch himself as a new superhero, but is quickly fired from both jobs; Michael Binkley becomes a wild boar skinner for ''[[Prince Valiant]]''. [[Lola Granola]] says that she has been invited to pose for ''[[Playboy]]'', which Opus dislikes. Milo Bloom is seen with a snake swallowing him head first and informing Opus he would be appearing Tuesdays in ''[[The Far Side]]''. Oliver Wendell Jones is seen with the distinct features of ''[[Family Circus]]'' characters. He informs Opus he is being "[[Desegregation busing in the United States|bussed in]]" to the strip as part of a court order. Once ''Bloom County'' characters are scattered, only Opus is left as part of a plot to transition to Breathed's next strip in ''Bloom County'''s final week.

Shortly after ''Bloom County'' ended, Breathed started a [[Sunday strip|Sunday-only strip]] called ''[[Outland (comic strip)|Outland]]'' with original characters and situations introduced in ''Bloom County'''s final days. However, Opus, Bill and other characters eventually reappeared and slowly took over the strip. ''Outland'' ran from September 3, 1989, to March 26, 1995. Another Sunday-only spinoff strip called ''[[Opus (comic strip)|Opus]]'' ran from November 23, 2003, to November 2, 2008.