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This year’s Bristol Comics Expo is going to be held on the weekend of May 9th-10th. Aggravatingly this is the same weekend that I’m going to be away at ATP vs the fans.

Even more annoyingly, this makes it the second year in a row that I’ll miss it. Last year I gave up, after a few attempts to survive the stupidly arranged ticket purchasing queues. Prior to that, I’d managed to go to every single one since Bristol began hosting them , back in 1999 or so.

Intriguingly, this year, the small press (usually the most interesting aspect of the festival, for me) is broken out into a separate event for some reason.

jwz said this comic was surprisingly awesome. He is correct.

For the benefit of anyone else who missed the memo, Pulitzer Prize winning stripper, Berkely Breathed is back in the funny pages with a syndicated Sunday slot. Set back in Bloom County, with a mostly familar cast, with the mildest focus shift to centralising around the escapades of the titular waterfowl. It’s readable online at Salon.com, although sadly there’s not a feed, so you may need to schedule a reminder of your own.

Economic tailspin, leg-warmers, tired, bloated government set on self-destruct, jingo-tastic US presidential campaign underway, and Bill The Cat! The 80s are most definitely back.