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THE COMPLETE LIBRARY

VOLUME FIVE: 19871989

BERKELEY BREATHED

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November 30 December 2, 1987

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Mea culpa. We edited this strip for this collection. Its sorta breaking one of our own rules about doing thisbut then, I broke a much bigger rule when I wrote this originally: I gave Bill a voice. In its newsprint incarnation, Bill states his name here, correcting it from Bert. Nice beat, but wholly, shockingly out of character. Letting a joke override staying true to character is where so many movies go wrong. One of the pleasures of doing these volumes is correcting ones own history. The Soviets enjoyed this for most of their history, why cant I?BB

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December 6, 1987

Little inside joke here. My photography professor at the University of Texas was J.B. Colson. He looked precisely like this. One wonders what he thought upon viewing this. Think about it: One wakes up and sees oneself in the funny papers below Charlie Brown. Do you shrug and turn to the sports section or do you wonder if youre having an LSD flashback?BB

I hope you had better luck remembering who Peter Holm is/was than I did. He is, for sure, delicious testimony to the ephemeral nature of fame. He was a national punchline for a hiccup worth of time in 1987 for suing actress Joan Collins for more money when she annulled their marriage within seconds after the ceremony. Memorable, possibly, only because he was sort of a spearhead for the now vomitous spillage of momentarily famous dickheads that now flow across our cultural landscape. Not that Im judging.BB
December 7-9, 1987

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December 10-12, 1987

In 1986 President Reagan appointed Douglas Ginsburg to the Court of Appeals. In 1987 Ginsburgs nomination to the Supreme Court was withdrawn after the candidates past marijuana usage became an issue. I drew Tipper Gore getting high while nude from the waist up on the Sunday morning funny pages. If you arent yet convinced that the eighties were the glory days of newspaper cartoons, youre probably dead or too young to appreciate any of this nonsense.BB

December 13, 1987

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December 14-16, 1987

I think I was referring to my old friend Barry Manilow here. I may have mentioned that Barry sent me flowers after I nearly killed myself in a flying accident. We had a complicated relationship.BB

December 17-19, 1987

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December 20, 1987

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