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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-style: italic; background-color: #99C2FF; color: black; padding: 0.25em 1em; font-size: 125%;">The Academia Waltz</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Academia_waltz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Academia_waltz.jpg/220px-Academia_waltz.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/ce/Academia_waltz.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="316" data-file-height="316" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Cover of first collection</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Breathed" title="Berkeley Breathed">Berkeley Breathed</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/">http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/</a><br /><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz/">http://www.gocomics.com/academiawaltz/</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status/schedule</th><td class="infobox-data">Concluded; reruns</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch date</th><td class="infobox-data">1978</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">End date</th><td class="infobox-data">1979</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Print_syndication#Comic_strip_syndication" title="Print syndication">Syndicate(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Reruns on <a href="/wiki/GoComics" title="GoComics">GoComics</a> (2003–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Texan" title="The Daily Texan">The Daily Texan</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Humor, Politics, Satire</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Followed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Bloom_County" title="Bloom County">Bloom County</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Academia Waltz</b></i> was <a href="/wiki/Berkeley_Breathed" title="Berkeley Breathed">Berkeley Breathed</a>'s first <a href="/wiki/Comic_strip" title="Comic strip">comic strip</a>, published daily from 1978 to 1979 in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Texan" title="The Daily Texan">The Daily Texan</a></i> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">The University of Texas at Austin</a>, where he was a student.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The strip focused primarily on college life, although it sometimes made references to big news stories of the time (such as the <a href="/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident" title="Three Mile Island accident">Three Mile Island accident</a> in 1979). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Academia_Waltz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Steve_Dallas" title="Steve Dallas">Steve Dallas</a></b>: an arrogant, obnoxious <a href="/wiki/Fraternity" title="Fraternity">fraternity</a> member preoccupied with the pursuit of sex. He became an icon in many circles at the University of Texas, which was not Breathed's intent.</li> <li><b>Kitzi</b>: Steve's <a href="/wiki/Sorority" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorority">sorority</a> girlfriend. She often finds ways to bend Steve to her will, a fact not always clear to Steve. She and Steve were married in the comic's penultimate strip.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Minor_characters_in_Bloom_County#Rabies" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor characters in Bloom County">Rabies</a></b>: Steve's reluctant canine friend.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Cutter_John" title="Cutter John">Saigon John</a></b>: a wheelchair-using <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> veteran who frequently attends protest marches. He does not often see "eye to eye" with the conservative Steve.</li> <li><b>Val Blain</b>: Kitzi's lovelorn best friend.</li></ul> <p>Two of the characters from <i>The Academia Waltz</i> would be resurrected for Breathed's next strip, <i><a href="/wiki/Bloom_County" title="Bloom County">Bloom County</a></i>: Steve Dallas and Saigon John (renamed "Cutter John"). Rabies also became a character early on in the strip, but disappeared around the time that <a href="/wiki/Opus_the_Penguin" title="Opus the Penguin">Opus the Penguin</a> (who would later become Breathed's most popular character) appeared; Breathed cites one reason for Rabies being "retired" is that there was "no shortage of cartoon dogs".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kitzi later made a guest appearance in <i>Bloom County</i> in 1985, although the character had been altered to be Steve's younger sister rather than his girlfriend (jailed for protesting <a href="/wiki/Apartheid" title="Apartheid">Apartheid</a>, even though their sorority doesn't even admit blacks). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Collections">Collections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Academia_Waltz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two collections featuring the comic were published. They are currently out of print and extremely rare, or as Breathed's website claims, "<a href="/wiki/EBay" title="EBay">eBay</a> is your only hope."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>The Academia Waltz</i> (1979)</li> <li><i>The Academia Waltz: Bowing Out</i> (1980)</li></ul> <p>A few <i>Academia Waltz</i> comics were also reprinted in the <i>Bloom County</i> collection <i>Classics of Western Literature</i> (1990), as well as in <i>Bloom County: The Complete Library: Volume One: 1980–1982</i> (2009). </p><p>In August 2015, IDW Publishing released an anthology titled <i>"Berkeley Breathed’s Academia Waltz & Other Profound Transgressions."</i> The anthology collects work from Breathed's college days, publishing his strips from <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Texan" title="The Daily Texan">The Daily Texan</a></i>, his college newspaper from 1978 to 1979, along with scanned original art from his personal archives featuring <i>Academia Waltz</i> strips (with author's margin notes) and political cartoons.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Academia_Waltz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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