Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County, 1986-1989

by Berkeley Breathed

A retrospective of the Bloom County comic strips from 1986 until its conclusion in 1989. Bloom County became a part of, and helped define, the popular culture of a decade.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316107549
• ISBN13: 9780316107549
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.1" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Loved it all over again

Still a classic - wonderfully funny. Shame he left the Bloom County format.

the best of Bloom

This is vintage berkeley. I enjoyed a lot of his stuff from that time period. Many political references that just made fun of the people of the time. Doesn't get more ironic or insulting than that in just a few frames. I liked the read and the way the characters evolved. Yea, Opus! Good stuff.

Classic BC/O Primer

I'd already owned all of the Bloom County and Outland books, this being my last purchase. I had seen it in the bookstore when it was published, but figured I already had the strips contained therein - why spend the extra money? I happened one day to be flipping through the book when I read the introduction, specifically the first page of said intro. There, in color bolder than life, was a painting from, Breathed claims, his early years, entitled Geshundeit. It was precisely this abrupt style of humor that brought me into the BC fold. The golden years of Bloom County, with Breathed's pithy observations of the late 80's, kept me there. If you want to understand the following Breathed has, this volume is the perfect place to start.