Bloom County
On October 25, 2017 IDW published "Bloom County: Real, Classy, & Compleat: 1980-1989", collecting the complete run of "Bloom County" in two volumes. An "Ultimate Collectors Set" was also released, including the original art from a daily strip featuring Opus, a page from Breathed's sketchbooks, and a personalized sketch of Opus on the slipcover.Published by The Library of American Comics, an imprint of IDW Publishing.
R. C. O. Benjamin
He returned to journalism, and owned and edited a number of papers throughout the country, including the "Colored Citizen" in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the "Chronicle" in Evansville, Indiana, and the "Negro American" in Birmingham, Alabama, where he settled for some time. In Birmingham 1887, together with A. L. Scott, Samuel Roebuck, George Turner, J. H. Thompson, Sandy Goodloe, D. A. Williams, A. T. Walker, William R. Pettiford, and J. T. Jones he incorporated the Robert Brown Elliot School of Technology in Birmingham, the first school of its kind for blacks in the U.S. He also was a pamphlet writer, writing pamphlets on African-American history and issues. Further, he was a noted orator and often spoke out against lynchings and violence against blacks. For his outspokenness, Benjamin was forced to leave Brinkley, Arkansas in 1879 and Birmingham in 1887.