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IDW to Publish Entire Run of Bloom County (IDW website via Fark.com)

IDW Publishing is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of The Bloom County Library. Beginning in October 2009, each of the five volumes will collect nearly two years worth of daily and Sunday strips, in chronological order. This will be the very first time that many of these comic strips have been collected, and the first time in a beautifully designed, hardcover format. The books will be part of IDW’s Library of American Comics imprint, and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney.

Wow, this will be an essential part of my library… definitely.  As much as I love Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side, I think I’m more influenced by Berke Breathed’s sense of humor and story style.

In theory, this collection would reverse the edits and mixed-up chronology of the Little, Brown paperbacks.

For example,  in the book Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things, the Platypus Comix website notes:

This collection’s strips were purposely arranged out-of-order. Opus’ trip to Antarctica (some of which was from December of 1983) is first; this happened in pieces through the course of months but is lumped together in print. In the newspapers, the “Survivalist” sequence is the actual first week of 1984 strips. In the book, that story doesn’t appear until page 21.

Breathed’s strip was quite topical, so it made sense to edit them for book form.  The beauty of the IDW release will be sidebar notes explaining some the blatant 1980s references such as Caspar Weinberger and Mary Kay Cosmetics.

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I’ve been having all sorts of problems adding blogging software.  In a perfect world, I would be able to use WordPress,

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