IDW To Publish Bloom County Library

You can read the press release here. This is fascinating on a ton of levels if you follow the comics reprints business. First, Bloom County is considered one of the remaining jewels of archival collection. It was a fine strip with a passionate fanbase including hardcore fans that would want the ultimate iteration of this material and a sizable, slightly more casual fanbase that might be talked into getting a definitive treatment. Second, this is IDW's first modern strip, which could mean a lot of things going forward. Third, this takes right off the table one of the two or three remaining strips that could have sustained an all-in-one treatment like Andrews McMeel gave The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. I'd say that program's dead unless you count the Dilbert 2.0, and I'm not sure I do. Fourth, since going into the Calvin and Hobbes publication Andrews McMeel was rumored to have three or four more projects of that type in mind and a total of none have come out since, Bloom County ending up elsewhere seems to lend at least some potential viability to rumors that despite how well the book did, especially at its price point, that massive Calvin and Hobbes collection might have performed under hugely lofty expectations. I'm sure there are more, but that's all I got!
 
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