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NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER and WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD “For those of us who only knew what was going on in the 1980s thanks to Breathed, it's a time capsule; for fans of hilarious cartooning, it's a treasure trove.” —National Public Radio Presenting more than 600 sequential comic strips, many that have never before been collected, and picking up exactly where Volume Four left off. Breathed himself provides copious, insightful, and often hysterical commentary along the way.
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A PENGUIN’S LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT As the 1980s draw to a close, so does BLOOM COUNTY. This final volume follows Opus, Bill the Cat, Milo, Oliver, Steve Dallas, and the rest of Berkeley Breathed’s quirky and charismatic characters as they make their way— and at the very peak of their popularity—down the path to comic strip immortality.
“In a country underscored by 15-second celebrity and bizarre political twists, few fictional characters have channeled our collective out-of-control insecurities better than Opus, the beleaguered, lumpy-billed Everypenguin at the center of Berkeley Breathed's comic parallel universe Bloom County.” —USA TODAY
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LOOM COUNT B Y THE COMPLETE LIBRARY VOLUME FIVE: 1987–1989
BERKELEY BREATHED