Bloom County Tales Too Ticklish to Tell

(1988)

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

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover

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

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tales Too Ticklish to Tell

Indexer Notes

Half-title page

Bloom County Books by Berke Breathed (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

credits, title page / 2 pages (report information)

Pencils

Berke Breathed

Inks

Berke Breathed

Letters

?; typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tales Too Ticklish to Tell

Characters

Opus

Indexer Notes

Title page, front matter

Introduction (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

? [as Mikhail Gorbachev]

Pencils

? (photo); ? (doodle) [as Mikhail Gorbachev]

Inks

? (photo); ? (doodle) [as Mikhail Gorbachev]

Letters

typeset

Characters

Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev

Indexer Notes

Spoof introduction, purportedly from Gorbachev

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Bloom County / comic story / 122 pages (report information)

Script

Berke Breathed

Pencils

Berke Breathed

Inks

Berke Breathed

Colors

?

Letters

Berke Breathed

Genre

humor; satire-parody

Characters

Opus; Milo; Binkley; Portnoy; Binkley's dad; Steve Dallas; Steve's mom; police; aliens; members of Congress; Cutter John; Lola Granola; W. A. Thornhump; Bill the Cat; Oliver Wendell Jones; Mr. Jones; Mrs. Jones; Basselope

Reprints

• from Bloom County dailies and Sundays (Washington Post Writers Group Syndicate) 1987.??.?? - 1988.??.??

Keywords

Anxiety closet; labor union; lawyers; newspaper; newspaper comic strip; politics; strike; televangelists

Indexer Notes

Compilation of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips (Sundays in color). Notable story arcs include: Opus marries Lola; Bill the Cat becomes a televangelist; Binkley's anxiety closet; Opus in exile; contempt for Donald North; Bloom County goes on strike; suing Santa Claus; aliens reverse Steve's brain; Meadow Party caucuses; making fun of Gary Hart; putting out a newspaper; Binkley's dad dates; Oliver's scientific achievements; Oliver's mom is obsessed with Michael Jackson.

The Bloom Picayune (Table of Contents: 8)

insert or dust jacket / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Loose "newspaper" spoof insert, printed on either low-quality bond or high-quality newsprint. Dimensions 8 1/8" w 10 1/4" h. Includes bylines by Milo Bloom, Buddy Manly, Mable "Megadeath" Marple (all fictitious characters), and George F. Will. Spoof Family Circus cartoon. Spoof Jeff MacNelly editorial cartoon. Spoof priced at 25 cents.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

blank page(s) / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

illustration / 1 page (report information)

Pencils

Jody Boyman (photo)

Inks

Jody Boyman (photo)

Colors

Jody Boyman (photo)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Berke Breathed; rhinoceros

Indexer Notes

Back cover.