Bloom County: "Loose Tails"

by Berkeley Breathed and Berke Breathed

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316107107
• ISBN13: 9780316107105
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Bloom County: The Beginning

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. Here we are introduced to the Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas, Cutter John and by far the best-known comic Penguin ever - Opus.Here we can see that Bloom County was just crackling with creativity and a real desire to "cut loose" from the beginning. Some of the strips covered "current events" and were topical, meaning circa 1980, but if you were around for any of that time it's a nostalgic trip back to the days of Boy George and when Ozzy Osbourne was best known as a singer. But the vast majority of the strips ring very true today as they deal with the absurdities of the human animal.A word about the format: Bloom County in it's original form included both the standard "3 panel" strips that appear in your every day newspaper in black and white, plus a larger full page color version for the Sunday paper. The other Bloom County volumes (as well as Bloom's sequel "Outland") were in a larger physical book form. (Similar to what you may have seen if you're a collector of, say, Calvin and Hobbes, or Dilbert). This first volume is a smaller book (similar in format to the endless volumes of Garfield which became available). But this is where it all began, and it includes much of the "best stuff". If you want to know what America was laughing at in 1980, this is it. But you know what? I reread these strips every so often, and they STILL make me laugh that loud, roll on the floor, tears streaming down my face, people coming into the room to see WHAT are you laughing at kind of laugh. We don't get that kind of laugh often enough. Thank you, Mr. Breathed.

The first collection of a great comic strip - great fun

This is the first collection of Bloom County cartoons and a great place to start enjoying the fun. Bloom County is a fictional place populated with as eclectic a group of characters as you will find anywhere. Eccentric humans, a talking penguin, and Bill the Cat take on the societal follies of the early eighties with a humorous point of view. See the Rolling Stones perform for an elementary school dance. Go back to a time when Three Mile Island was in the news and Princess Diana was expecting her first child. Even if the events are distant memories, the humor is timeless.

Berke Breathed's Glory Days!

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 humour tends to the wit and satire end of the cartoon spectrum with only occasional bursts of slapstick. The satire is aimed mainly at lifestyles and steroetypes rather than current events which makes it still sharp as it ages.It is a very male-centric book. Female characters are introduced in order to give the main players a romantic interlude or to prop up some situation.Bloom County was one of the best cartoons of its time and Loose Tails is a real gem.

A must have for Bloom County fans

Loose Tails is thouroughly hillarious trip around Bloom County with all the wit and sarcasm that the comic strip was noted for. Some of Berkeley Breathed best work was included in this book and I cherish it as one of my all time favorites. Unless a collector wishes to offer me one million dollars for it, I will never part with it.