Bloom County Complete Library Volume 2 by Berkley Breathed is finally out. And it contains many, many classic comics. From the formation of The Meadow Party and introduction of Oliver to the unforgettable Bill The Cat Story (a 3 parter in Sunday strips), here is some more classic 1980s comic strips. If you don’t understand some of the references, that’s OK…neither does the author.

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Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 by Berkeley Breathed is like a memory bomb going off in my mind. Before Dilbert, before Calvin and Hobbes, before Far Side (but after Doonesbury) was Bloom County. Bloom County exploded onto the comics page in the early 1980s as a Doonesbury ripoff. And way to often for Gary Trudeau’s comfort, it was an extremely blatant Doonesbury ripoff. But Breathed brought his own manic personality and evolving artistic skills and became one of the most popular strips of the 1980s, earning Breathed a Pulizter Prize in 1987, before Breathed stopped the strip in 1989. The characters popped up in later Breathed strips Outland and Opus before ending (possibly for good) in 2008.
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