The Bloom County Library #1 - 1980-1982
(October 2009)

IDW, 2009 Series
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Volume
1
Price
39.99 USD
Pages
296
On-sale Date
2009-10-07
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
IDW Publishing
Brand
The Library of American Comics; IDW
ISBN
978-1-60010-531-9 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
9781600105319 53999
Editing
Scott Dunbier (collected edition); Dean Mullaney (designer)

Issue Notes

Bloom County ® and © 2009 Berkeley Breathed. All rights reserved. "On Bloom County" © Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell.
Winner of the 2010 "Archival Collection/Project—Strips" Eisner Award.
This issue has variants:
Awards

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Bloom County / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Berke Breathed
Inks
Berke Breathed
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
humor
Characters
Steve Dallas; Opus

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Berke Breathed
Pencils
Berke Breathed
Inks
Berke Breathed
Colors
Berke Breathed
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
1981 was ripe for Bloom County.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Academia Waltz / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Berke Breathed
Pencils
Berke Breathed
Inks
Berke Breathed
Letters
Berke Breathed

Genre
humor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Sampling of Berkeley Breathed's strip The Academia Waltz that appeared in a college newspaper.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

text article / 4 pages (report information)

Script
Dean Mullaney; Bruce Canwell
Letters
typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text
And so a penguin walks into a bar... or The Bloom, Back on the Rose
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Bloom County / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Berke Breathed
Pencils
Berke Breathed
Inks
Berke Breathed
Letters
Berke Breathed

Genre
humor
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Six non-continuity Bloom County strips that were created to insert in case of emergency.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Bloom County / comic story / 265 pages (report information)

Script
Berke Breathed
Pencils
Berke Breathed
Inks
Berke Breathed
Letters
Berke Breathed

Genre
humor
Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Bloom County
  2. 1. ["1981 was ripe for Bloom County."]
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Academia Waltz
  4. 3. ["And so a penguin walks into a bar... or The Bloom, Back on the Rose"]
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Bloom County
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Bloom County
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