Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982

Berkley Breathed's Bloom County was one of the most popular andcritically acclaimed newspaper strips of all time.

Bloom County ran fromDecember 8th, 1980 to August 6th, 1989 and was published in an astounding 1200newspapers on a daily basis.

The huge popularity of Bloom County spawneda merchandizing bonanza, as well as two spin-off strips, Outland andOpus.

The Bloom County Library Volume 1 highlights the first time theentire run of the immensely popular Bloom County strip has been collectedin beautifully designed hard cover books with exceptionalreproduction. -The Library of AmericanComics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book.

LOAC has become "the goldstandard for archival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provideinsight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of thematerial has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a newgateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time." -Scoop