 is not how a comic strip should be drawn. This is not how ANY deadline should be handled by any reasonable, conscientious, grown-up professional. But as I wasn&rsquo;t, they weren&rsquo;t. The flip side of that confessional coin is that<i> Bloom County </i>would not have been what it was&#151;whatever it was&#151;if I&rsquo;d been that thing I just described. It was art and writing born of chaos. It was the poison the madness needed. The new book&#151;with all the chaos intact and not edited out, as it was