Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 4: 1986-1987 Hardback

by Berkeley Breathed

Part of the Bloom County series

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Book Four of Berkeley Breathed's Eisner Award-winning series and New YorkTimes best-seller features some of the most fondly remembered BloomCounty cartoons, both from a humor standpoint and from a biting, politicalone.

This is the period for which Breathed won a Pulitzer Prize, the highestaward in journalism, for editorial cartooning.

Breathed is one of only twocartoonists to win a Pulitzer for editorial cartooning (Garry Trudeau was also arecipient for Doonesbury). This volume begins more than six weeks after the strips in Volume Threeconclude.

This is because of a near-death experience suffered by Breathed, who,having broken his back in an ultralight-plane crash, was unable to continue hisdaily grind and the strip went on hiatus for nearly two months.

Breathed went onto incorporate some of his experiences into one of the most famous BloomCounty sequences ever - Steve Dallas breaking his back after beingattacked by an enraged Sean Penn!-TheLibrary of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspapercomic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints...Theresearch and articles provide insight and context, and most importantly theglorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those whoknew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them forthe first time." - Scoop