Bloom County is my favorite comic strip in the universe. Unfortunately, it is very hard to find now, since it's a strip from the 1980's and they stopped printing the book collections a long time ago. If you ever DO run across one of the Bloom County books, buy it immediately because you'll be in for a good time.



But the odd thing is, even if you DO buy all the books, you still won't have read all the strips. To do that, you'll have to go to this very website...let me explain.



A while back, my dad had a basement stuffed full of old newspapers dating back to 1978. (The year was 1990.) Every time I visited him, I would go down there and snip various cartoons from the funny papers of years past, and then paste them in notebooks, making my own "comic collections." I now have Peanuts clippings going back to 1981, before I was even born; as well as rare prints of several other strips. But it never occured to me that book publishers will often omit or edit certain strips from the versions published in the papers, sometimes never publishing them at all. Sadly, this was done with Bloom County a LOT, apparently. Re-looking through my old Bloom County notebooks, I found a ton of stuff you could never see today unless YOU had been pasting newspaper strips into notebooks as a kid. Since you probably never did this, it's now time to share my knowledge with you....