Milo Bloom

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Milo Bloom was a central character in the American comic strip Bloom County. He was originally the main character, but was soon overshadowed by his best friend Michael Binkley, and later on, Opus the penguin.

Early in the strip, Milo often appeared with his grandfather, who was referred to as the owner of the rooming house where the characters lived.

Milo was the most worldly and cynical of all the characters; he was seemingly the only county resident who cared about politics and goings-on in the world outside his small town. He lived in the Bloom County Boarding House with his grandparents, Major Bloom and Bess Bloom.

Milo was also a reporter for the Bloom Beacon and later the Bloom Picayune, where he engaged in controversial reporting (he says he graduated from the "Rupert Murdoch School of Exuberant Journalism"). In early times, he always bothered the remarkably evil Senator Bedfellow with ridiculous questions, asking for confirming accusations (usually about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa), and attempting to convict him for virtually anything, although Bedfellow was not his only target. A noteworthy scandal he created (with some help from Oliver Wendell Jones: changing the front page article of the New York Times, from "Reagan Calls Women 'America's Most Valuable Resource'" to "Reagan Calls Women 'America's Little Dumplins'", resulting in an attack on the White House by angry feminists.

Milo appeared to be the only staff reporter on the Bloom Beacon. The only other employees seen were the editor-in-chief and Opus, who was, at various times, a personals editor, editorial writer, ombudsman, and cartoonist (or, as he styled it, "stripper").

Milo didn't have an active role in Breathed's next syndicated strip, Outland, only appearing as a background extra on a bus a week before the feature ended. He has not yet appeared in Opus.