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This unique story of one boy's Christmas wish begins and ends with a bicycle. Using glowing images and a funny, provocative text, the author relives his father's most amazing childhood Christmas. A moody young boy living with his aunt on an island in the Pacific Northwest, "Red" Breathed sees himself as the "Red Ranger from Mars," his hero from the movie serials, and cannot picture life without the gift of a Red Ranger bicycle. Red is far too "swanky a human being" to believe in Santa Claus, but nevertheless he pays a visit to the aged island hermit Lord Sander Clos, rumored to be the legendary man himself now living in lonely, joyless retirement. This strange and bittersweet meeting triggers an emotional response within the self-absorbed Red. It also leads to the most remarkable bicycle ever delivered on a Christmas morning: one neatly and permanently stuck inside a tree. The book ends with a photograph of the amazing tree fifty years later -- still holding the bicycle of a boy who grew up happy without it. This book represents the Pulitzer Prize-winning Berkeley Breathed at the top of his form. It combines hypnotic imagery and richly textured language to create a powerful, unforgettable Christmas story.
Fannie Fudwupper's big brother Edwurd, spends his time cooking up big fibs full of phooey and letting them rip. But one day, Edwurd tells such a whopping lie that the army, the air force, and the dogcatcher are called to reverse the damage!
Berkeley Breathed, the mad genius who boggled and bewildered us
with Bloom County, is back! Soon after retiring Bloom County - and
at the peak of its popularity - Breathed returned with an all-new
Sunday-only newspaper strip: Outland. Debuting just four weeks
after the final Bloom County was published, and with many of the
same cast members, Outland continues on in the same traditions set
forth by its forebears - ranging from delightful whimsy to raging
satire! This volume contains every Outland strip published, some
never-before-collected in book form, and nearly all have been
scanned from the original art, provided by Breathed from his
personal archives. More than 280 Sunday pages, all in fully
remastered color, from September 3, 1989 through March 26, 1995. As
an added bonus, this volume will have a selection of the extremely
rare Academia Waltz, the college strip Breathed did as a precursor
to Bloom County!
Presenting every Bloom County daily and Sunday strip in
chronological order from the first to the last! Berkeley Breathed's
Bloom County debuted in late 1980 and ran until August 1989.
Featuring an exceedingly quirky cast of characters, including the
sweetly naive Opus the penguin, the flea-bitten Bill the cat,
womanizing attorney Steve Dallas, Milo Bloom, Cutter John, and many
others, Bloom County soon became one of the most popular comic
strips in history, appearing in over 1200 newspapers. Then, at the
peak of its popularity, Berkeley Breathed did something
unprecedented... he walked away. Now, more than 25 years later, the
complete collection of the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip is
collected into a deluxe, two volume, slipcased set.
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