Whose doing Bloom County?
lwsamocha
Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
who is doing the strip in his name.
The artwork for the last several days has looked different,
but the strip has carried his signature. Is
this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
else "ghosting" the strip?
Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
just imagination?
LWS
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As I'm sure will be pointed out by others, the "Bloom County" strips that are
running now are from the first year or so of the strip, when it wasn't carried
by very many papers. Most of them were never collected in the reprint books
so they are essentially "new" strips to most readers. (Breathed's style sure
has changed a lot over the years!)
As a bit of new information to make this post worthwhile, I might add that
Berke was released from the hospital to his home Friday morning (02/21) and
is reported to be walking around and "eager to get back to work". We should
start seeing new material again in mid-to-late March, earlier if the syndicate
feels a need to rush things.
.rne.
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Matthew P. Wiener
I heard he was doing the comic now with his toes. That might be
causing the differences you notice. Because of the inherent
difficulty, he doesn't have the time to think up new gag lines,
but instead is using the exact same punchlines as before.
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Susan Williams
is starting to kill me. I started reading C. at about issue 65, right
in the middle of a story, I realize. The Claremont--Secret Wars/Christianity
references are hard to miss, but I must confess that I have no idea what
is going on here. I am beginning to think that this is a comic-book-writer's
comic book, but I like the little guy and find him generally amusing.
Would someone be so kind as to post a summary of all the major characters
and how they are related? This would be immensely helpful.
Pete Zakel
If you will look closely at the strips you will notice, in small print, that
says "Copyright 1982". These are simply reprints of 4 year old strips. (How
soon we forget!).
BTW I recently read an article that said Berke was out of the hospital and
would be starting new strips post haste. Hopefully by next week we'll be
reading fresh new adventures of Opus and the gang (and finding out where
Cutter John is!).
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Michael Roper @ U of Washington Computer Science
>but the strip has carried his signature. Is
>this Breathed's earlier work that we are seeing, or is someone
>else "ghosting" the strip?
>
>Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>just imagination?
The syndicate which distributes Bloom County to your local newspaper
is issuing previously published strips (some of them several years old)
until Breathed recovers. He was released last week from the hospital
and is expected to return to work in a month or so. The last of the
pre-accident Sunday strips was run 2/23.
The most noticeable difference in the artwork appeared in a few of the
very early strips featuring Opus. The shape of his nose was quite
different then. Otherwise, the artwork seems pretty stable.
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Matthew P. Wiener
>> >Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>> >just imagination?
>>
>> I heard he was doing the comic now with his toes. That might be
>> causing the differences you notice. Because of the inherent
>> difficulty, he doesn't have the time to think up new gag lines,
>> but instead is using the exact same punchlines as before.
>
>says "Copyright 1982". These are simply reprints of 4 year old strips. (How
>soon we forget!).
If you will look closely at my posting you will see that I said he "is
using the EXACT SAME punchlines as before." How do you think I noticed?
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Didn't Santayana say something about the second time around?
vc253ah
Yes, the comics you see are real Breathed. Since his unfoutunate
accident, the syndicate has been reissuing his older strips. He
is reported doing fine and should be back in action soon. An amusing
story about Mr. Breathed. Since he lives here in Albuquerque, I know
this is fact:
It seems that Berke set out a couple of those pink plastic flamingos
out in his front yard. The 'Neighborhood Committee' objected strongly
to the 'eyesore' in his yard. He solved the problem by spraypainting
the flamingos a nice brown color.
Ronald C. Rosul Jr. (vc253ah)
Phil Pfeiffer
liberal cartoons. Consider this recent strip (pinned to my bulletin board):
Rev. Sloane:
"So you have a family in New York. That's good. That could be helpful.
Now, why did you flee to America?"
Refugee: "To escape political repression in Nicaragua."
Rev. Sloane:
"You mean, El Salvador. To escape political repression in El Salvador."
Refugee: "No, Nicaragua."
Rev. Sloane:
"{sigh} That's a problem. My funding comes from liberation theologians.
Nicaragua is supposed to be free now."
Refugee: "Ok, El Salvador."
Rev. Sloane (smiling): "El Salvador, eh? You poor devil!"
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Michael k Notch
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>> Since Breathed is supposed to be recouperating from his accident,
>> who is doing the strip in his name.
>>
I thought that people would have realized that before he restarted doing it,
the comic has been repeats.
>> Has anyone else noticed slight differences in the strip or is it
>> just imagination?
>>
What happens to many artists is that as they draw a particular character(Opus)
they like to experimant or they grow tired of drawing a character a particular
way. In Charles Schultz case, his characters grew in talking so he made them
grow in looks also.
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>How come no one ever talks about Doonesbury, anyway?
You may not have been around when he wanted to stop doing it, but at that time
there was a great deal of talking. It seems that it takes extremes to make
people want to talk about some things.
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