'' The Academia Waltz '' was Berkeley Breathed 's first comic strip , published daily from 1978 to 1979 in '' The Daily Texan '' at The University of Texas at Austin , where he was a student . The strip focused primarily on college life , although it sometimes made references to big news stories of the time ( such as the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 )
Three Mile Island accident
Three Mile Island accident
The Academia Waltz