I got my first Bloom County collection by Berke Breathed for just PhP20 back in 2008, or maybe even less than that since I recall that fly-by-night bookstore had a dart game and if you hit good you get a free book.
Just a turn of the first few pages and I knew I was at the hands of a genius.
Fast forward to now, this month of May, three years later. My 10-day vacation in the province of Cabiao has fortuitously rewarded me with another Bloom County collection (actually at Booksale in Cabanatuan). No dart boards this time, not even sold for 20 Pesos, but a whopping PhP115, but heck, this thing is priceless.
Actually, I chanced upon the Bloom County 2 years prior to that but I was in a pinch in those days and so had to heart-rendingly leave the bookstore.
from the Oregonlive.com
"...There's Bill the Cat's relentless pillorying of Garfield, and the inspiration for "Mars Needs Moms" (a tantrum by his son, Milo) and the day Breathed took a long, reflective look at the animation for "A Wish for Wings that Worked" and realized Steven Spielberg was about to produce a film with hilariously pornographic snow scenes.
And there's the letter he received from Bill Watterson -- the creator of "Calvin and Hobbes" -- in which Watterson sketched a cartoon that paid tribute to Breathed's Nancy Reagan story.
The president was speaking on the phone in the Oval Office, naked save for his pair of boots, saying, "That's quite a coincidence, Berke."
In the evening benefit at the Cartoon Art Museum, one long wall was arrayed with original "Bloom County" art that memorialized Michael Jackson, the birth of Bill the Cat and the classic response of the main characters when a woman asked them to focus, however briefly, on the one thing that provided a semblance of meaning in their utterly meaningless lives..."
I wish Mr. Breathed would draw again.
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