Tales Too Ticklish to Tell: Bloom County (Paperback)
In 1987, America's obsessions included the Iran-Contra affair, the NFL players' strike, the peculiar pecadilloes of televangelists and the effect they had on their "flocks," and the impending election of a new President from a crop of unlikely candidates. It is this America that...
Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Berkley Breathed's Bloom County was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed newspaper strips of all time. Bloom County ran from December 8th, 1980 to August 6th, 1989 and was published in an astounding 1200 newspapers on a daily basis. The huge popularity of Bloom County spawned a...
Bloom County: The Complete Library Volume 3 collects every strip from July 1984 through February 1986. Many fondly remembered strips are in this volume, including the classic 1984 presidential elections featuring possibly the finest running mates ever for such a campaign: Opus and Bill the Cat....
Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (A Bloom County Book) (Paperback)
Close your eyes and go back in time 20 years. Ronald Reagan is in the White House and getting ready to run for a second term against Walter Mondale. Disco, Heavy Metal, and Michael Jackson compete for space on a new network, MTV. In the funnies, Bloom County provides a humorous take on American...
Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (A Bloom County Book)
Excellent for Bloom County readers, October 8, 2005 A Kid's Review I bought this book at a ued bookstore in fairly bad shape, but it was excellent. Bloom County is one of the funniest comics out on the streets today. If you want to start reading Bloom County, Though, don't start with this...
Bloom County had something special, more than just the jokes. As you read the strip, you cannot help but get involved with the characters. Bloom County fans don't just laugh at the jokes, they care about Opus and the rest. Even Steve Dallas, the ruthless but inept lawyer, wins sympathy. The...
Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness (Bloom County)
Bloom County is on my short list of all-time favorite comics. The original form, before short-lived "Outland" or the current "Opus", is long gone, though. Picking up this book was a wonderful piece of nostlagia. The series peaked some time in the early 80s, and...
I like the second volume better than the first for several reasons (not that the first isn't a funny, timeless classic) As Mr. Breathed pointed out, by this point the strip was more focused, centered and legible. And there were more comments by BB (I'd like to see even more in the next...
Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (A Bloom County Book)
Okay - Bloom County Babylon, the 4th Bloom County book was really a compilation of material contained in the first 3 books. So.... depending on if you want a chronological collection of the BC Strips, or to complete ALL of the BC Books, this is either the 4th or 5th volume of Bloom County, and...
Here you will find the beginning of one of the most inspired comic strips ever put to paper. No other strip made me laugh as hard, or as often, as "Bloom County". In fact, pretty much nothing else in the whole wide world made me laugh as hard as this divine creation of Mr. Berke Breathed....
Billy and the Boingers Bootleg (Bloom County Book)
* Paperback: 121 pages * Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Juv Pap); 1st ed edition (August 1987) * Language: English * ISBN: 0316107298 * Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 10 inches * Shipping Weight: 15.20 ounces * Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews. (Write a review.)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: One of the Best, May 27, 1999 Reviewer: A reader Probably THE book of the 1980s, comic strip or not. The wide cast of characters includes a Miami Vice style jerk, aging hippie, despairing leftist, Reaganites, etc. The sureal-ness of the series really
* Paperback: 121 pages * Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P); 1st ed edition (September 1988) * Language: English * ISBN: 0316107352 * Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 8 x 7.2 inches * Shipping Weight: 14.40 ounces * Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews. (Write a review.)
Night of the Mary Kay Commandos (A Bloom County Book)
* Paperback: 96 pages * Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P); 1st ed edition (August 1989) * Language: English * ISBN: 0316107387 * Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 10 x 9 inches * Shipping Weight: 10.40 ounces * Average Customer Review: based on 11 reviews. (Write a review.)
The Bloom County Library, Volume One: 1980-1982 (Library of American Comics)
Breathed's "Bloom County" was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed newspaper strips during its run from 1980 to 1989. This volume collects for the first time the entire run of the immensely popular "Bloom County" strip.
Billy and the Boingers Bootleg (Bloom County Book) [Paperback]
Product Description With the release of this new Bloom County book and the newly chosen Billy and the Boingers Theme Song, chosen from the most bone-shaking, kidney-curdling entries from rock bands nationwide, Springsteen and Van Halen will become as distant a memory as Michael Jackson. 300...
Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness (Bloom County)
This first big "bible" of Bloom County includes comics from the earlier collections: Loose Tails, 'Toons for Our Times and Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. Eighty full-color pages including the wonderful Opus "hairy fishnuts/Hare Krishnas" strip and the first Bill-the-Cat...
Product Description Bloom County burst onto the American comic scene in December of 1980 and it soon became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The quirky denizens of the strip included Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas, Michael Binkley, Cutter John, Bill the Cat, and Opus the penguin, along...
Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982 (Library of American Comics) [Hardcover]
From Booklist When Bloom County first hit the comics pages in 1980, it was widely dismissed as a Doonesbury rip-off, understandably enough, considering their similar artistic styles—crudely drawn figures in unvarying medium shots—and subject matter considered provocative by the staid standards of...
Achewood Volume 2: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar (Hardcover)
Product Description Riding high on the success of The Great Outdoor Fight, Achewood and Dark Horse Comics have compiled an extensively annotated collection of the first few years' worth of Achewood comics. This is no mere companion volume to the cult-classic online strip: the entire prehistory...
Night of the Mary Kay Commandos Featuring Smell O-Toons
Happy Trails begins with Opus deciding to get an illegal back-alley liposuction of his nose, and ends with him saying "Good-bye" to all of the familiar faces and places of Bloom County on the way to the sequel "Outland". On the pages that intervene Berkeley Breathed gets in some...
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Night of the Mary Kay Commandos Featuring Smell O-Toons (Paperback)
This, the penultimate Bloom County collection, is of course spotlighted by the whole Mary Kay Commandos storyline, but there's so much more going on in this book, which covers roughly November 1987 - December 1988. 1988 was the year of the Bush/Dukakis Presidential election, and true to form...
Berkeley Breathed ("Bloom County") continues his successful second life as a first-rate children's storyteller. In the spirit of A Wish for Wings That Work and Red Ranger Came Calling, Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big celebrates Breathed's ample cartooning skill while incorporating...
OPUS: 25 Years of His Sunday Best [BARGAIN PRICE] (Paperback)
Book Description From one of the funniest minds--and pens--of our time, at last, the definitive collection of the very best of Opus, everyones favorite maladjusted penguin. One of Americas most beloved comic geniuses is back, with this collectible 25th anniversary compendium of the best of Opus,...
A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story [Paperback]
The creator of the popular Bloom County comic strip takes up the well-worn theme of an animal who helps Santa. Opus is a penguin who longs to fly, but it's his swimming strength that makes him a hero after Santa's sleigh falls in a lake after the harness breaks. Reward: Santa's praise...
Opus N' Bill: A Wish For Wings That Work (Full Frame)
The following content was provided by the publisher. Available for the first time on DVD, take Bloom County's "Opus And Bill" home for the holidays in this perennial holiday special! Opus the Penguin, among his other problems, always felt inadequate by his being "aerodynamicly...
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