When was Bloom County first published?
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On October 25, 2017 IDW published "Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat: 1980-1989", collecting the complete run of "Bloom County" in two volumes. An "Ultimate Collectors Set" was also released, including the original art from a daily strip featuring Opus, a page from Breathed's sketchbooks, and a personalized sketch of Opus on the slipcover.Published by The Library of American Comics, an imprint of IDW Publishing.
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Like many other popular comic strips, "Bloom County" has been republished in various collections. By 2004, the comic strip was reprinted in 11 books, the first having been published in 1983 and the last in that year. None of the reprints contained complete runs of the strip, although "Bloom County Babylon" contained many of the strips that preceded "Loose Tails". All of the daily strips have been reprinted in "Comics Revue" magazine.
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IDW Publishing published "The Bloom County Library", a five volume hardback collection of all "Bloom County" strips, beginning in October 2009. This series is part of their "Library of American Comics" series. It is a complete reprint of the strip, including side notes about cultural and political references made in the strip, "Headlines" breaks to identify the top stories of the day, and commentary from Breathed. Each volume has three separate releases: a standard edition, a signed edition, and a signed, remarked edition. Breathed said that the reason why the strips printed in "The Bloom County Library" were not published in previous collections was that the publisher would not let Breathed publish 400 pages each year, so Breathed had to reduce the content in each book. Breathed also said that he believes that, "I just closed my eyes and dropped a dart on the ones to be included." He felt relieved the publishers did not "have to ask […] to do this again."
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On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing "Bloom County" again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015. Sadly, readers must have a Facebook account to view the daily strip and comments due to the security settings on the page. (This can be changed if desired by BB and company.)
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On July 12, 2015, Breathed posted to his Facebook page a photo with the caption "A return after 25 years. Feels like going home." The photo showed him drawing a comic strip with the title "Bloom County 2015" with Opus pictured in the first frame. A fan asked in the comments on the picture if this was in response to Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and Mr. Breathed responded to the comment that "This creator can't precisely deny that the chap you mention had nothing to do with it." The next day, July 13, 2015, the first comic of the revived strip was officially posted online, also to Breathed's Facebook page. The strip was relaunched under the "Bloom County 2015" title, only to be renamed simply as "Bloom County" at the start of 2016.
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Bloom has written two memoirs about her life and career. The first, "Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress", was published in 1982 and was an in-depth look at her career and the film and stage roles she had portrayed. Her second book, "", published in 1996, went into greater details about her personal life; she discussed not only her marriages but also her affairs with Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, and Yul Brynner. The book created a stir when Bloom described her former marriage to Roth. Soon after, Roth wrote a "revenge novel" "I Married a Communist" (1998), in which the character of Eve Frame appeared to represent Bloom.
Claire Bloom
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Though the strip's various compilations do not do them justice, the original cast of characters in "Bloom County" were Milo, Bess, and Major Bloom, along with a basset hound named "Rabies" whose thoughts could be read à la Snoopy; the first year of strips are mysteriously omitted from all compilations save the "Bloom Library", although a selection did find publication in a 1986 anthology collection "Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness". Most of the strip's most memorable characters debuted later on, with Milo being the only key character to appear for the duration of the strip's run.
Alphonso Ali was the first significant African American character in "Bloom County". An ardent admirer of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, Alphonso was first introduced as Binkley's opponent in the boxing ring. Later, Alphonso would make appearances as a friend of Binkley and Milo, as well as everyone else in the meadow, and fought in the Great Snake Massacre. He disappeared in 1983, and was replaced by Oliver Wendell Jones later that year.
Minor characters in Bloom County
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Bloom, written in 1998, is the fifth science fiction novel written by Wil McCarthy. It was first released as a hardcover in September 1998. Almost a year later, in August 1999, its first mass market edition was published. An ebook reprint was published in 2011.
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Shortly after "Bloom County" ended, Breathed started a Sunday-only strip called "Outland" with original characters and situations introduced in "Bloom County"'s final days. However, Opus, Bill and other characters eventually reappeared and slowly took over the strip. "Outland" ran from September 3, 1989, to March 26, 1995. Another Sunday-only spinoff strip called "Opus" ran from November 23, 2003, to November 2, 2008.
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In August 2012, Bloom published her first children's book, entitled "Little Sweet Potato" (Harper Collins). According to The New York Times, the story "follows the trials of a 'lumpy, dumpy, bumpy' young tuber who is accidentally expelled from his garden patch and must find a new home. On his journey, he is castigated first by a bunch of xenophobic carrots, then by a menacing gang of vain eggplants."
Amy Bloom