I watched as he worked unrelentingly as an unpaid citizen advocate to rid the town of toxic air quality from the ever-burning "boney dump" in 1974, to bring a reliable source of potable water to residents in 1981, and finally to rid us of deadly health hazards by bringing us an innovative Wastewater Treatment Plant to allow residents to install indoor toilets to replace outhouses that were built at the founding of the town in 1903 and were now crumbling and leaking deadly sewage into our Lambert, Iselin's paid town manager and elected Justice of the Peace, self-taught in law, beloved by all. I was raised in a coal town of 500 people, one of five children of James P. We ask guests to make their way to the 3rd floor of the Library building where the Jimmy Stewart Museum is located for a reception and the opportunity to experience the exhibit provided by Mary Stewart (sister to Jimmy Stewart) on various coal mining families from Indiana County.įrom the author: Origins of and inspiration for this work Bloom will be signing copies of her book which will be available for purchase in the Library. The Inspiring Story of Unrelenting Citizen Advocates for Social Justice ISELIN: The Rich History of a Western Pennsylvania Coal Town in Appalachia Bloom will be on the second floor to discuss her book: We all use cell phones now Berke and Captain Kangaroo is no longer on TV.Join us at the Indiana Free Library for a special "Meet the Author" Event Let’s just hope the 25 years of being lost will not be too much of a shock to him. Then there is the rumor that he locked himself inside his one bedroom apartment watching endless reruns of Seinfeld, Bugs Bunny, the Twilight Zone and Ice Station Zebra while eating a steady diet of cheese puffs until he went quietly mad and realized that his only back to sanity was through his artistry.Įither way, Trump barging full force upon the political scene threw some switches in his soul and brought him back to reality and to modern American civilization. Yet another said he joined the circus and performed as a lion taming clown trapeze artist, but gave it up because it never had the satisfying wildness that his cartoons had. He only quit when he found out the latest tunnel he was digging was to free Pablo Guzman. Or that could have just been the plot of a movie I saw once.Īnother said that he had joined a cult that lived underground in bunkers with elaborate tunnels going in all directions in preparation for any number of possible holocaustic disasters. One has it that he ran off with Brooke Shields to a desert island and had twenty five years of endless sex in paradise. One has to wonder what Breathed has been up to the past 25 years. Like Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead Breathed has risen Bloom County back from the deceased. I can very much imagine the humorous potential the great orange haired one can inspire in an artist. Well, it’s nice to know that something good came out of Trump’s announcement of his running, other than it messing up the Republican platform real good. He says he was inspired by Donald Trump’s running for President. One wonders why Breathed would return to his long forgotten cartoon after so many decades. Bill the Cat brought such manginess to the Sunday funnies that you were afraid to touch the paper for fear of getting ringworm. Opus’ homely and lovelorn images graced many a number of plush and plastic toys, his protuberance jutting outward into prominence (I’M TALKING ABOUT HIS NOSE!!!). And, yes, that includes and surpasses Garfield.īoth Opus and Bill the Cat became icons of the 1980’s. Combine the worst elements of every American cartoon cat there has ever been going all the way back to Krazy Kat when newspapers were born and you would produce Bill the Cat. If there ever was a unique cartoon character to illuminate the Sunday paper it was Bill the Cat. Wildly amusing and wildly drawn the series followed the equally wild adventures of Milo Bloom, a lost penguin named Opus and his side kick Bill the Cat. He only stopped making his cartoon for TWENTY-FIVE YEARS!!!īloom County, once one of the most syndicated cartoons in the US back in the 1980’s, will be soon be showing its multicolored face in the funny papers again. The Bloom County cartoon is back in print!īerke Breathed, beloved cartoonist of the once greatly beloved cartoon Bloom County, has returned from the dead…
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