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The oddball denizens of Bloom Country smell trouble when armed cosmeticians invade their home, in a collection of the best cartoons from the past year, complete with a sample of the Commandos famous fragrance.Tags
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Funny! Brilliant! Irreverent! Bloom County at its peak...
Follow the infamous '88 election campaign of Bill n' Opus (see why they received a very substantial contribution from The United Cocaine Producers, Smugglers, Pushers, and Affiliated Scum).
Find out the "odd and terrible link" between the twin decline of both America's Rock n' Roll and Highways (it involves Elvis).
Discover what kind of firearms Mary Kay Commandos actually carry (they're deadly and they're pink).
The answers to these and many other questions you've never really wondered about will be revealed by reading this fantastic collection of Bloom County comic strips.
Would I recommend it? Surely you jest -- Of course I would!!!
Follow the infamous '88 election campaign of Bill n' Opus (see why they received a very substantial contribution from The United Cocaine Producers, Smugglers, Pushers, and Affiliated Scum).
Find out the "odd and terrible link" between the twin decline of both America's Rock n' Roll and Highways (it involves Elvis).
Discover what kind of firearms Mary Kay Commandos actually carry (they're deadly and they're pink).
The answers to these and many other questions you've never really wondered about will be revealed by reading this fantastic collection of Bloom County comic strips.
Would I recommend it? Surely you jest -- Of course I would!!!
Although some of the cartoons are dated due mostly to political and entertainment themes, much of the humor from Opus, Steve Dallas, Michael Binkley, Cutter John, Milo Bloom, Bill The Cat, Hodge-Podge, Portnoy and many other characters is timeless and holds up well today.
Worth reading for the title sequence alone. Funny stuff.
Includes "Smell-O-Toons", and features a raid by Opus and company on the Mary Kay animal testing labs. More fine loonitude from a favorite strip of mine.
It was at this point that Bloom County started its downhill slide.
collection of Bloom County cartoons
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Berkeley Breathed is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip. Bloom County earned Berkeley the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1987. He replaced the Bloom County strip with the surreal Sunday-only cartoon, Outland in 1989, which show more featured some of the Bloom County characters. Eight years later, Berkeley began producing the comic strip, Opus, a Sunday-only strip featuring Opus the Penguin. In addition to his cartoon work, he has also produced seven children's books, two of which, A Wish for Wings That Work and Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big, were made into animated films. Berkeley's writing has also been featured in numerous publications, including Life, Boating, and Travel and Leisure. Berkeley lives with his family in Southern California. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters
- Opus; Bill the Cat; Milo Bloom; Steve Dallas; Rosebud the Basselope; Portnoy (show all 23); Hodge-Podge; Michael Binkley; Tom Binkley; Oliver Wendell Jones; Frank Jones [Bloom County]; Steve Dallas's mother; Spuds MacKenzie; Milquetoast (cockroach); Ronald-Ann Smith; Cutter John; Mary Kay Ash; Elvis Presley; Ted Koppel; Scarlet O'Hara; Nancy Ritz; Pogo Possum; Reginald Dallas (father of Steve Dallas)
- Important places
- Bloom County
- First words
- The chair acknowledges that a nomination vote is not binding unless the V.P. nominee is in attendance...
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Makes you holler and talk stupid—and they don't nab your boat when they find a little bit of it!"
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
- LCC
- PN6728 .B57 .N5 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
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- 3