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Bloom County

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Hello fellow Bloom County fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing Bloom County again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bello Bear [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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HELP: Looking for mods that to take over community! UPDATED (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Update: M_F (https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected] has ) has kindly stepped up to be lead moderator on all the comic communities! That makes me very happy that they will continue!!! If you reached out to help, please work with M_F directly. Thanks again M_F!!!!

TLDR: I’m sad to report that I will no longer be posting daily comics as I just don’t have the time :( If anyone wants to take over the daily posts, please DM me. Ideally, there would be 2-3 people to split up posting duties to make it easier.

The longer story is, I run my own graphics business which is my regular full-time gig. On top of that, at the beginning of the year. I started my lifelong passion project and created my own comic strip called Bello Bear (https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]). Sadly, there is only so much time in day and running a full-time business, a passion project, and also having some sort of home life at the same time is just not possible.

Even though posting the daily comics is only about a half hour of my time, it adds up. It’s also 7 days a week and though I’m a creature of habit, it is a grind. I would rather dedicate that time to my passion project, which is currently limited to only Mon, Wed, and Friday releases as I'm already stretched thin.

This is effective immediately for the following communities…

Calvin and Hobbes https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

The Far Side https://sh.itjust.works/c/thefarside

Garfield https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

Bloom County https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

Cyanide and Happiness https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

If you are interested taking over the reigns for any of the comic communities, please DM me.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh man I feel where you're coming from, and I'd like to help but I'm spread pretty thin too. I don't want to take something else on only to fail everyone.

I hope someone can step up. I have almost all of the comics in gif form (been downloading from comics.com for years), so if someone could write a bit I could supply the comics or even run it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I already wrote a comic posting script for [email protected]. I replied in another thread I could taker over the actual posting given a database of the content that should get posted. The tricky part is it has to allow the bot to figure out what should get posted on what day :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I went through and gave them file names with the date of publication. Does that work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I can handle the posting if you want to share the comics with me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I lack the savvy, but wanted to thank you. I truly appreciate that each day you gave me something to look forward to. I especially appreciate that each comic was released on the corresponding date, only 43 years later. It’s been fun getting to know Milo, Binkley, Opus, et al, again. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What time (UTC) should the comics be posted? I might be able to take one or two days a week.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I usually post around 17:00 UTC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I'm willing to help mod and/or post