"http://scs.viceland.com/int/v16n12/htdocs/berkeley-breathed-273/berkeley-breathed.jpg" alt="" width="670" height="936" border="0" vspace="4"><br><br><i>For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and </i>Mad<i> magazine. In a word: seminal. In two words: </i>fucking<i> seminal.<br>
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	Breathed&rsquo;s comic strip </i>Bloom County<i> ran from 1980 until 1988. It crossed the goofiness o