Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness

Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness
by Berkeley Breathed

Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness
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Author: Berkeley Breathed
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1986-09-30
ISBN: 0316103098
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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  • ISBN13: 9780316103091
  • Condition: New
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Book Review: Funny as a Penguin Trying to Hang Glide
Summary: 5 Stars

For the love of wonderful things, seems to always come when those wonderful things are in short supply. And so it was with Berke Breathed's Bloom County. There simply isn't enough out there. In this collection, the first five creative wacky years of Breathed's Bloom Country are captured showing Opus appearing for the first time alongside a Hare Krishna's...something is lost in translation though into Penguin-speak, "Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts." And so it is with Breathed's Bloom County.

Color plates are interspersed ever so often throughout the book. The black and white really isn't a detractor though because Breathed's off the cuff semi-liberal tongue in cheek anything goes alternate reality humor takes center stage. There is Milo's Meadow where philosophy rules the day and Binkley chokes on the headlines screaming, "The Nicaraguan Contras are the moral equivalent of our founding fathers;" remember that was the 80's. Like David Lee Roth Van Halen, Northern Exposure, and the Bengal Tiger, it's too bad Bloom Country has gone the way of the Dodo, or flying penguins for that matter. All in all it's a wonderful collection; it's just too bad there's not more of it.

Summary of Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness

An anthology of cartoons from the syndicated comic strip, "Bloom County" encompasses highlights from the five-year span of the strip.
This first big "bible" of Bloom County includes the wonderful Opus "hairy fishnuts/Hare Krishnas" strip, the first Bill-the-Cat appearance, and more comics from the earlier collections: Loose Tails, 'Toons for Our Times and Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. If you hurt yourself laughing (like when you read about Bill freebasing Friskies), don't blame me; I warned you.

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