ICV2 has a short chat with Berkley Breathed ahead of the first volume of IDW’s very welcome Bloom County Complete Library, which is due next month (we asked Bill the Cat for a comment, he simply replied “Ack! Ack! Thhhpptttt!” – make of that what you will):
“ICV2: Some of the strips that will be included in IDW’s Bloom County Library were left out of the previously published Bloom County collections. Why were they omitted? Are you happy to see them included in the new complete collection?
Breathed: Because the bastards wouldn’t let me publish 400 page books every year, I had to make the painful cuts. I could print about a third of any one year’s strips. I think I just closed my eyes and dropped a dart on the ones to be included. What a relief they didn’t have to ask me to do this again.”
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