The Bloom County Library Is Coming

We remember reading the final Bloom County in the Sunday paper. Berkely Breathed had decided to retire his Pulitzer prize-winning comic strip and we’d thought ourselves prepared for it. But when we got to the last frame, Opus the penguin walking into the unknown, we wept like a baby. It was 1989 and this fishie was thirteen years old. We’d grown up with Bloom County, and the strip had shaped our view of politics, pop culture, satire and dead cats.