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The Art of Berkeley Breathed from Bloom County and Beyond

The Art of Berkeley Breathed from Bloom County and Beyond


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IDW PUBLISHING

Ted Adams, CEO & PublisherGreg Goldstein, President & COORobbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic ArtistChris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer & Editor-in-Chief

Matthew Ruzicka, CPA & Chief Financial OfficerAlan Payne, VP of SalesDirk Wood, VP of MarketingLorelei Bunjes, VP of Digital Services

www.idwpublishing.com

ISBN: 978-161377-651-3

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Printed in Korea

Art and annotations by Berkeley Breathed

Design by Serban Cristescu

Edited by Scott Dunbier

BERKELEYWORKS: THE ART OF BERKELEY BREATHED, FROMBLOOM COUNTY AND BEYOND. FIRST PRINTING. JULY 2013.Entire contents 2013 Berkeley Breathed. Published by IDW Publishing,a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial Offices: 5080Santa Fe Street, San Diego, CA 92109. All names, characters, andlocales are entirely fictional: Any similarities to persons living or deadis purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for reviewpurposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprintedwithout the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC.

Cover illustration: With apologies to Norman Rockwell andhis famous self-portrait of 1960


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Memo to: Scott Dunbier, Senior Editor for Special Projects, IDW Publishing

From: BB

Subject: FINAL NOTES ON BOOK

1. Files are all in. You put it all together. Im off the grid in Indonesia at the moment.

Some last-minute directives:

2. The title: I hate BERKELEYWORKS.Sounds like --


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The Arrival

Mars Needs Moms, 2007

Milo never heard the rocket engines in the night sky.


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Mom Succumbs

Mars Needs Moms, 2007

Then she breathed in the terrible air, closed her eyes and

became still.


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Aweless at the Movies: CG efx Overload

Los Angeles Times essay, 2008

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The Terrible Truth of the Milky Way

Goodnight Opus, 1993

There, all above us,six billion udders.

No cow dads around,just milky cow mudders.

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My Baby Grew Up in Hollywood

Los Angeles Times essay, 2011

My illustration of what happens to an authors work whenits sent off to Madam Hollywoods Fabulous Finishing School. In my case,the toddler was Mars Needs Moms. This was the most benign spin I couldtake regarding my personal thoughts on the matter. Or mess. bb

When Worlds Collide

Hollywood ReporteressayCant imagine what My Boys are

thinking. bb


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C-Mo Awakens

Something AboutC-Mo book project,2012

The blue-nosed straypanicked, went forhigher ground andcovered his privates

with a Christmas angel.

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Wee Willy Yodels Into the Great Unknown

Flawed Dogs movie concept art, 2010

Willy thought he heard an echo.

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