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Berkeley Breathed — Mixed Emotions

November 26, 2024 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Bloom County Sunday Strip, April 17, 1983

So… You support much of one party’s political platform, and the other guys win, and you somehow benefit from that opposing victory anyway?

Talk about mixed emotions.

This Bloom County Sunday strip appeared in print six weeks before I had my first “real” job — with a salary that certainly that did NOT benefit from any sort of Reagan tax cut.

And yet this specific strip remained burned in my brain forever. When we (IDW Publishing) added Bloom County reprints to our line-up around 2009, I asked if Berkley still had this specific strip, and if so, would he sell it to me.

He still had it… and he gifted it to me. A gift I treasure, and one that I am indeed very thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Berkeley Breathed — Heir To The Empire

December 20, 2019 Greg Goldstein Original Art and The Artists

Bloom County Sunday Strip, July 1,1984

The Empire rebuilt itself and came back more powerful than ever: The plot of the latest Star Wars Trilogy, or Berkeley Breathed’s prescient look at a well-known mega-corp. 35 years ago?

Star Wars. ATT. Donald Trump. Ruppert Murdoch. Et al. Bloom County may have disappeared for a bit, but many of his frequent satirical topics most definitely did not.

So we might be done with one Empire this week, but the other one is not going anywhere for a while.

The Force is with us indeed. Just a different one than Mr. Lucas imagined.