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Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat: 1980-1989
Presenting every Bloom County daily and Sunday strip in chronological order from the first to the last!
Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County debuted in late 1980 and ran until August 1989. Featuring an exceedingly quirky cast of characters, including the sweetly naive Opus the penguin, the flea-bitten Bill the cat, womanizing attorney Steve Dallas, Milo Bloom, Cutter John, and many others, Bloom County soon became one of the most popular comic strips in history, appearing in over 1200 newspapers. Then, at the peak of its popularity, Berkeley Breathed did something unprecedented... he walked away. Now, more than 25 years later, the complete collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip is collected into a deluxe, two volume, slipcased set.
Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County debuted in late 1980 and ran until August 1989. Featuring an exceedingly quirky cast of characters, including the sweetly naive Opus the penguin, the flea-bitten Bill the cat, womanizing attorney Steve Dallas, Milo Bloom, Cutter John, and many others, Bloom County soon became one of the most popular comic strips in history, appearing in over 1200 newspapers. Then, at the peak of its popularity, Berkeley Breathed did something unprecedented... he walked away. Now, more than 25 years later, the complete collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip is collected into a deluxe, two volume, slipcased set.
- GenresComicsHumorComic Strips
832 pages, Paperback
Published October 31, 2017
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Berkeley Breathed
91 books414 followersGuy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies.
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March 5, 2025
Every Bloom County strip, in two paperback volumes in a slipcase signed and personalized by Breathed, with an Opus sketch. Pretty awesome, right? This should be the definitive volume, and I can get right of the other books on my shelf, right? (All of the trades and the first two hardcover complete collections.)
There is a fatal formatting flaw. Monday through Thursday strips are on the left page, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the right. This makes for the smallest size for the Sundays ever, making them very hard to read. It’s a cool thing to have when I want a jolt of 80’s nostalgia, but seeing Sunday strips at that size is the painful. I might have to ditch this.
There is a fatal formatting flaw. Monday through Thursday strips are on the left page, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the right. This makes for the smallest size for the Sundays ever, making them very hard to read. It’s a cool thing to have when I want a jolt of 80’s nostalgia, but seeing Sunday strips at that size is the painful. I might have to ditch this.
August 15, 2018
Hilarious! Just as funny as I remember it in the papers, and beautifully drawn, as well.
March 4, 2018
Amazing! I just relived a part of my childhood.
2 book boxed set, so I counted it as two books instead of one, like it gets listed on Goodreads.
2 book boxed set, so I counted it as two books instead of one, like it gets listed on Goodreads.
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