Day 245 - Mortimer Mouse! - 9/3/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is Mortimer Mouse!

Not the Disney one. The one from Outland by Berkeley Breathed!

Love me some Bloom County.

Day 206 - New Pande! - 7/26/2015

Today's Thing-a-Day Thing is a new "Ponder and Enlightening" comic!

More to come????

(prolly not for a while)

Comiggggs!

Day 184 - a review of Honest Tea's Peach Oo-La-Long Tea! - 7/4/2015

Yesterday was my mom's birthday.

I didn't get anything made.

But today I made two things!

My dad reviewed Honest Tea's Peach Oo-La-Long Tea with me!

Like we said in the video, it's pretty good! You should check it out.


But then again, I am a big fan of Berkeley Breathed.

Oo-La-lovely.

Day 171-173 - Bill, Mememe, and Skylar's Pitch Perfect! - 6/20/15, 6/21/15, 6/22/2015

Princess Melawesome and I were helping my parents move into their new apartment over the weekend. And it was Father's Day and the first day of summer!

So I didn't get any posts done or up.


Now I have 3 Thing-a-Day Things to share!

1. Bill the Cat!

A big part of helping my parents move is always carrying boxes of books. In a few of these boxes I found and thumbed through some Bloom County, Outland, Opus, and children's books by Berkeley Breathed.

I love all the stuff he's done. Looking through these books made me wanna take a crack at MS Painting ol' Bill.

2. Memes (sigh)

I just... it was all I could think of making.


3. Me and Skylar.

I have a big old man crush.

The Treblemakers' rendition of "Lollipop" was the best part of Pitch Perfect 2.

They should've let Skylar sing more.

Bloom County and Iowa City

A few weeks ago Princess Melawesome and I visited my cousin Meryl Irwin in Coralville, IA. She showed us around nearby Iowa City, IA.

At the Iowa City Public Library we happened upon several Berkely Breathed original cartoons!






I've been a fan of Breathed's work for as long as I can remember (through my Dad, Hemry). So this was quite exciting for me. Almost as exciting as the time I met him and had him sign a book for me and one for Hemry!
Meryl then took us to a comic shop and a book store .The store also had some Breathed originals on the wall. (I didn't realize there were originals, so I didn't take any pictures. Poo.) When I got home I found out that Breathed lived there for a while and based Bloom County pretty heavily on Iowa City. The boarding house that most of the characters from the strip is based on an actual house in the city (which I'll find when we visit Meryl next), and the Bloom County radio station's call letters are those of an Iowa City station, and the Bloom Picayune is based on an Iowa City paper.

But I ramble...

The Prairie Lights Bookstore was the basis for Bloom County's Prairie Lights Newstand!

So that was a welcome surprise at the end of a long, wonderful trip to the Dakotas and back. I hope to visit other comic strip-related points of interest. If and when I do, I'll make sure to blog about them.

Oh, for the strip at the top of this post to make sense, it helps to be familiar with Opus the Penguin from the Bloom County, Outland, and Opus comic strips and my strip Ponder and Enlightening (the strip of which this site is, in fact, a spin-off!) The penguin hilarity begins HERE!