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This book contains selections from the author's comic strip, Bloom County.Tags
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Includes a copy of "The Bloom Picayune". Opus' marriage runs aground at the altar. Steve Dallas is kidnaped by aliens and transmogrified into a sensitive Alan Alda type. Just more inspired silliness from one of my favorite strips.
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.
I recall Oliver Wendell Jones. A nerd after my own heart. Another Bloom County collection.
Bloom County
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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
- Tales Too Ticklish to Tell
- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Opus; Steve Dallas; Milo Bloom; Bill the Cat; Lola Granola; Michael Binkley (show all 17); Rosebud the Basselope; Oliver Wendell Jones; Portnoy (groundhog); Hodge-Podge (rabbit); Cutter John; Ms. Opus (mother of Opus); Giant Purple Snorklewacker (monster in the closet); Tom Binkley (father of Michael Binkley); Steve Dallas's mother; Frank Jones [Bloom County] (father of Oliver Wendell Jones); Santa Claus
- Important places
- Bloom County
- First words
- Awright, you motel-wrecking conspirators...bail me outta this slime hole...
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Phase four: sit back and watch capitalism blossom faster than you can say "Ivana Trump."
- Original language
- English
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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 .B735 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
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