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.
The Howard County Times
In 1920, the paper was owned by Judge James A. Clark, Sr., Paul Talbot and Paul G. ("Pete") Stromberg, (1892-1952), took over as editor. Paul "Pete" Stromberg became a state senator and editor of "The Sun", a major daily newspaper in Baltimore. Which coincidentally, decades later would see "The Sunpapers", along with its later syndicate chain owner, the Tribune Company (of the "Chicago Tribune" and the "Los Angeles Times"), would in turn absorb the "Howard County Times" in a later merger with its last independent publisher, the Patuxent Publishing Company of Columbia, Maryland. In 1940, Stromberg took control of the Maryland Printing and Publishing Company which gave him sole ownership of the Howard County paper. Stromberg in turn created or purchased over the next few post-war years, 11 new local papers in the suburban (Baltimore County) or outlying Baltimore City communities/neighborhoods ringing around Baltimore, naming his syndicate as the "Stromberg Newspapers" and employed his nephew Charles L Gerwig as editor. Some of these were the "Arbutus Times", "Catonsville Times", "Owings Mills Times", "Towson Times", "The Jeffersonian", "Northeast Record", "Northeast Booster", "[North] Baltimore Messenger" (Baltimore City) and the "Laurel Leader" (Anne Arundel County/Prince George's County). Stromberg's editorial influence helped his brother-in-law Norman E. Moxley become a member of the Howard County Board of County Commissioners in 1949, Edgar Russell Moxley to become County Police Chief, his daughter Doris Thompson to become chairman of the planning commission and Robert Moxley, a prominent land developer purchasing land for the Rouse Company of famous nationally known mall developer James Rouse, (1914-1996).