Beethoven - Six Selected Sonatas: Opus 10, Nos. 1 and 2, Opus 14, Nos. 1 and 2, Opus 78, Opus 79 (Hal Leonard Piano Library: Schirmer Performance Editions)
Neverending Rainbow (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
And just like that it’s Christmastime again. Okay it took a year since the last time…but it doesn’t seem that long, does it? The season is a celebration…of the Christ child’s birth…of the wondrous bonds of love and friendship that inform our lives…of gifts given freely and accepted gratefully…of food and drink…of music (the subject of an...
Welcome to Falling Rock National Park (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I've been consuming two pieces of National Park entertainment lately. I don't know what serendipity caused this to happen, but I'm happy it did. Ken Burns turned in his latest opus, a documentary on the national parks called America's Greatest Idea . I've only got through the first episode so far but that was a doozy. The creation of Yosemite first as a state park, then Yellowstone, the first national...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Berkeley Breathed, the supremely talented cartoonist behind Opus and the recently-collected Bloom County comic strips, talked to CNN this week about the genesis of his new children’s book Flawed Dogs, which he actually pegs more as a prepubescent reader than really “children’s.” Breathed told the news organization that the book was inspired, in part, by the [...]
CNN (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Berkeley Breathed answers the door to his Santa Barbara home, a tall, slender figure in suede cowboy boots.
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Before there was The Daily Show or South Park , there was Bloom County , Berkeley Breathed’s satirical eighties comic strip that centered around a sensitive penguin named Opus, and ribbed such cultural cartoons as Donald Trump, Al Sharpton, and George H.W. Bush (see the feature in this week's magazine). This month sees the arrival of The Bloom County Library: Volume One: 1980-1982 , the first...
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I was a loyal reader of Bloom County for a long time but somehow I lost touch with Breathed and what he was doing. Turns out he was doing quite a lot. Here's an excerpt from Hero Complex, LA Times.s Berkeley Breathed, drawn back to 'Bloom County' but looking forward October 3, 2009 | 8:38 am TODAY: Berkeley Breathed is appearing at the Long Beach Comic Con. Berkeley Breathed, the creator of the comic...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Known for a fanciful brand of subversive humor, the creator of "Bloom County" has now stirred Hollywood's interest in his children's books.
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\, adjective: Having a fleshy pink color. Red; blood-red. transitive verb: To make red or crimson. From Italian incarnatino, which came from the Latin incarnato, something incarnate, made flesh, from in + caro, carn-, "flesh." It is related to carnation, etymologically the flesh-colored flower; incarnate, "in the flesh; made flesh"; and carnal, "pertaining...
Sandbox World (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Berkley Breathed’s Bloom County reigned supreme in the 80’s as a new renaissance of comic strips hit the field with Bloom County,Gary Larson’s The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes. Bloom County pleased more the college crowd as did the Doonsbury readers from which both were courted by the same readership. Bloom County is more [...]
Comics And... (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
AS PROMISED PART 2 Heart Monster Press Deformitory GN by (W/A) Sophia Wiedeman This Xeric Grant Award-winning surreal graphic novel follows the misadventures of Delores, who works in an office. Her hands, tired from typing, transform into claws, complete with faces, cute eyes, and mind of their own. Delores, lonely in the city, becomes friends with her claws, talking to them on the subway, giving them...
Undercover Black Man (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
If we were to carve a Mount Rushmore in honor of cartoonists who brought hipness to the funny pages... there’d be no debate about which four. Garry Trudeau. Berkeley Breathed . Bill Watterson. Aaron McGruder. Trudeau revolutionized comic strips during the 1970s with “Doonesbury.” The ’90s belonged to Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes.” In this decade, McGruder’s...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Nevin sez, "To drum up interest in my forthcoming book "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip," I am offering interested readers a sample chapter from the book, which comes out on October 1 via Continuum Press. If interested readers send an email to lookingforcalvinandhobbes@gmail.com they can request their very own...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Nevin sez, "To drum up interest in my forthcoming book "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip," I am offering interested readers a sample chapter from the book, which comes out on October 1 via Continuum Press. If interested readers send an email to lookingforcalvinandhobbes@gmail.com they can request their very own...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
My spouse and I used to read the Bloom County comic strip religiously. Reading the comics sitting together side by side was one of the rituals of our courtship. We read in specific order ,snaking our way up the page and back down again until we ended up at Bloom County. We bought all the Bloom [...]
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
While checking out the new features on Universal Press/uClick’s GoComcs.com, I noticed that in the A-Z list of features, when you mouse over the name of the feature, a little pop-up shows a brief description of the feature and how many people subscribe to it. Given that they offer that kind of information, the next [...]
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