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Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk.
"When Black Roses Bloom" was written by Lisa Smedman, and published by TSR, Inc.
Published by The Library of American Comics, an imprint of IDW Publishing.
In "Free Radicals (Radikalim Hofshiyim)" published in 2002, Castel-Bloom stopped writing in the first-person. In "Human Parts (Halakim Enoshiyim)" published in 2002, she was the first Israeli novelist to address the subject of Palestinian suicide bombings. Her anthology of short stories "You Don't Argue with Rice", was published in 2003. Castel-Bloom has won the Prime Minister's award twice, the Tel Aviv award for fiction and was nominated for the Sapir Prize for Literature.
Blooming Twig Books is an independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction books. It was founded in 2005 by Kent Gustavson, and the name of the company was derived from the direct translation (from Swedish to English) of Blomquist, his mother’s maiden name. Blooming Twig publishes books and audio in genres such as Motivation, Business, Psychology, Children's Fiction and Nonfiction, History, and General Nonfiction, as well as Adult Nonfiction, Self-help, Family, and Education. Blooming Twig has released hundreds of titles, and believes in supporting independent and first-time authors.
IDW Publishing published The Bloom County Library, a five volume hardback collection of all Bloom County strips, beginning in October 2009. This series is part of their Library of American Comics series.[20] It is a complete reprint of the strip, including side notes about cultural and political references made in the strip, "Headlines" breaks to identify the top stories of the day, and commentary from Breathed. Each volume has three separate releases: a standard edition, a signed edition, and a signed, remarked edition. Breathed said that the reason why the strips printed in The Bloom County Library were not published in previous collections was that the publisher would not let Breathed publish 400 pages each year, so Breathed had to reduce the content in each book. Breathed also said that he believes that, "I just closed my eyes and dropped a dart on the ones to be included." He felt relieved the publishers did not "have to ask […] to do this again."[2]
The setting of Bloom County resembled Iowa City, Iowa, in several ways; Breathed lived there during the early years of the strip. The Bloom Boarding House, for example, which appeared as a high contrast photo within the strip, is modeled after the Linsay House located at 935 East College Street in Iowa City.[16][17] Another Iowa City landmark, The Prairie Lights Bookstore, was referred to in the strip as the Prairie Lights Newsstand, original Bloom County artwork from Breathed hangs in the bookstore. An original Bloom County strip hangs in the Iowa City Public Library. Breathed used the call letters KRNA to refer to Bloom County's rock radio station featuring "Rockin' Charmin' Harmon". The call letters belong to an actual Iowa City rock station which featured a disc jockey named "Charmin'" Jeff Harmon in the 1980s.[18] Several Iowa City local news items also directly inspired Bloom County storylines. For example, a fictional Ronald Reagan sexist gaffe, referring to women as "little dumplin's", was lifted from University of Iowa football coach Hayden Fry's comment, infuriating feminists at the university.[19]
The "Riley Bloom" series is the spin-off of the fantasy series "The Immortals" by Alyson Noel first published in 2010 in the United States about the afterlife of Riley Bloom, the sister of Ever Bloom (lead character of The Immortals).
While the location of Bloom County is never explicitly mentioned, there have been some clues in the strip. When Oliver Jones identified Bloom County as the place where Halley's Comet would crash into Earth, a sign was seen saying that it was at 35.05 N 146.55 E. This would place it in the Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles off the coast of Japan. Oliver's previous calculation was 39.43 N 105.01 W, which would place it just south of Denver, Colorado. In an early strip, Milo gives his address as "Box 163, Bloom County, N.I., 12460", the zip code for which would place it about 30 miles southwest of Albany, New York. Another strip has Opus trying to make airline reservations to Des Moines, Iowa. He balks at the outrageously high quoted price for a ticket stating that "Des Moines is just 94 miles from Bloom County". Geographically, this would place Bloom County in either Iowa or the far north-central tier of counties of Missouri, but likely referring to the distance from Iowa City, where the strip was produced, to Des Moines. (See Real World References below). Also, in a Sunday strip with L.H. Puttgrass, he is holding a King Soopers bag, which would place the comic in Colorado. On January 29, 2016, Berkeley Breathed posted on Facebook that "The Bloom County boarding house still sits in beautiful hayseedless Iowa City, home for this cartoonist for four years."[15]
When Black Roses Bloom is an adventure module for the 2nd edition of the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" fantasy role-playing game, published in 1995.
In May 2005, "Birds & Blooms" began publishing "Birds & Blooms EXTRA" with magazine issues published six months a year on alternating months to the original "Birds & Bloom" magazine.
Poems from Lista's debut, "Bloom", first began appearing in 2007, when the art magazine "Border Crossings" published "Fourteen Poems from Bloom" prefaced by a lengthy editorial introduction in its November 2007 issue. Selections from Bloom then appeared in many of Canada's literary journals and magazines, including "ARC Magazine", "Descant", "Event", "Maisonneuve", "The Malahat Review", "Rhythm", and "The Walrus".
For the second episode, the writers had upped the ante, and got Phil Bloom to appear completely naked. During a skit, she is reading a newspaper, sitting on a sofa; she reads, out loud, a review of the first episode of "Hoepla" that appeared in the Catholic daily "Trouw" and when she lowers the newspaper she is shown to be completely naked. But when photos of the taping leaked out and were published, the scene was shot again; this time Bloom is on a chair (likewise naked) reading another "Hoepla" article, this time from "Het Vrije Volk", the social-democrat daily paper, which states that the VPRO cut Bloom's scene after the photos leaked out. As soon as the scene is over, the screen shows the VPRO's postal address, to accommodate those who wished to cancel their membership.
The county was home to the Bloom Boarding House, Steve Dallas' law offices, the Bloom Beacon and Bloom Picayune newspapers, at least one pond, and Milo's Meadow. In the comic's later years, the county contained what appeared to be a big-city ghetto ("the wrong side of the tracks", as it was known).
On October 25, 2017 IDW published Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat: 1980-1989, collecting the complete run of Bloom County in two volumes.[21] An "Ultimate Collectors Set" was also released, including the original art from a daily strip featuring Opus, a page from Breathed's sketchbooks, and a personalized sketch of Opus on the slipcover.[22]
Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness is the fourth collection of the comic strip series Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed. It was published in 1986.
For part of 1968, Bloom published the "LNS of the New Age" but the project died, when the ink froze in the mimeograph.
Bloom has written two memoirs about her life and career. The first, "Limelight and After: The Education of an Actress", was published in 1982 and was an in-depth look at her career and the film and stage roles she had portrayed. Her second book, "", published in 1996, went into greater details about her personal life; she discussed not only her marriages but also her affairs with Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, and Yul Brynner. The book created a stir when Bloom described her former marriage to Roth. Soon after, Roth wrote a "revenge novel" "I Married a Communist" (1998), in which the character of Eve Frame appeared to represent Bloom.
Like many other popular comic strips, Bloom County has been republished in various collections. By 2004, the comic strip was reprinted in 11 books, the first having been published in 1983 and the last in that year. None of the reprints contained complete runs of the strip, although Bloom County Babylon contained many of the strips that preceded Loose Tails. All of the daily strips have been reprinted in Comics Revue magazine.
Two collections featuring the comic were published. They are currently out of print and extremely rare, or as Breathed's website claims, "eBay is your only hope."
A few "Academia Waltz" comics were also reprinted in the "Bloom County" collection "Classics of Western Literature" (1990), as well as in "Bloom County: The Complete Library: Volume One: 1980–1982" (2009).
Some of the earliest games to use the bloom effect include "Ico" and "Outcast". Bloom was later popularized within the game development community in 2004, when an article on the technique was published by the authors of "Tron 2.0". Bloom lighting has been used in many games, modifications and game engines such as "Quake Live", "" and the Spring game engine. The effect was popular in 7th generation games, and was used heavily in PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games as well as Nintendo GameCube and Wii. Popular browser-based games such as the MMORPG "RuneScape" made use of the bloom effect as well.
Milo is the most worldly and cynical of all the characters; he is seemingly the only county resident who cares about politics and goings-on in the world outside his small town. He lives in the Bloom County Boarding House with his grandparents, Major Bloom and Bess Bloom. Said grandparents run the boarding house where most of the characters live. To amuse himself when alone, Milo likes to do things like going spear fishing at a small creek with a whale harpoon.
Organization of Bloom Township was approved by the Nobles County Board on March 18, 1879. The original choice of name for the township was Afton. However, the Nobles County Board was notified by the state auditor's office that another Afton Township existed in Washington County, Minnesota. The name was then changed to Bloom Township in honor of Peter Bloom, the township's first settler. Afton Township in Washington County no longer exists, having been absorbed by the city of Afton, Minnesota, in 1971.
Marion Bloom (1891–1975) was H. L. Mencken's lover for much of the early twentieth century - eventually becoming close enough that they seriously considered marriage. They first met February 1914 when Bloom visited the office of "Baltimore Sun". Mencken and Bloom ended their relationship in the early 1920s, though Bloom continued to admire Mencken. Their love letters were published in "In Defense of Marion: The Love of Marion Bloom & H.L. Mencken" in 1996 ().
Loose Tails (1983) Toons For Our Times (1984) Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (1985) Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness (1986) Billy and the Boingers Bootleg (1987) Tales Too Ticklish to Tell (1988) The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos (1989) Happy Trails! (1990) Classics of Western Literature (1990) One Last Little Peek, 1980–1995: The Final Strips, the Special Hits, the Inside Tips (1995) Opus: 25 Years of His Sunday Best (2004) Bloom County Episode XI: A New Hope (2016) Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat 1980-1989 (2017) Bloom County Brand Spanking New Day (2017) Bloom County Best Read On The Throne (2018)