Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick
10 best books like Krazy and Ignatz, 1927-1928: Love Letters in Ancient Brick (George Herriman): The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 2: 1953-1954, Mickey Mouse, Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley, Congress of the Animals, Clyde Fans, Book 1, 5 Is the Perfect Number, Peepshow: The Cartoon Diary, The Acme Novelty Datebook, Vol. 1, 1986-1995, Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, Maakies, Nancy Is Happy: Complete Dailies, 1943–1945
The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 2: 1953-1954
| Author | Charles M. Schulz |
| ISBN | 1560976144 |
The second volume is packed with intriguing developments, as Schulz continues to create his tender and comic universe. It begins with Peanuts' third full year and a cast of eight: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, the recently-born Linus, and Snoopy. By the end of 1954, Pigpen...
| Author | Floyd Gottfredson |
| ISBN | 1606994417 |
Today everyone knows Mickey Mouse as the cheerful ambassador of
all things Disney. But back in the 1930s, Mickey gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted epic hero — an adventurous
scrapper matching wits with mobsters, kidnappers, spies, and even (gulp!) city slickers! And Mickey’s...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1606994379 |
Readers of the "Frank" stories know that The Unifactor is in control of everything that happens to the characters that abide there, and that however extreme the experiences they undergo may be, in the end nothing really changes. That goes for treble for Frank himself, who is kept in a state of total ineducability...
Just along King Street at number 159 you will find the old storefront of the Clyde Fans Company. It's been locked up for years now and most people would naturally assume that it's completely abandoned. Look closer. Peer in through the display window into the dimly lit office and there on the far wall you...
| Author | Igort |
| ISBN | 1896597688 |
A romanzo straight from the Italian streets where the melancholy dreams of Mafiosi become nightmares.
A young hired hitman with a handsome new revolver by his side lies dying in the gray and narrow streets of Naples. His father gave him that gun for his birthday. The gun never fired a shot and...
| Author | Joe Matt |
| ISBN | 1896597270 |
For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly shameless and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionist's enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself.
The...
The Acme Novelty Datebook, Vol. 1, 1986-1995
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 1896597661 |
Acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware reveals the outtakes of his genius in these intimate, imaginative, and whimsical sketches collected from the years during which he completed his award-winning graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (Pantheon). His novel not only won the Manchester...
| Author | Dan Nadel |
| ISBN | 0810958384 |
Most of these are simply not interesting to read. This is especially true when many of the comics are not printed so that the writing is reasonable. Also some of the art is designed in a way so that the writing is hard to read even when zoomed in.
But a couple are real gems. . . . In particular, "Herbie."...
| Author | Tony Millionaire |
| ISBN | 1560973919 |
Tony Millionaire's comic strip Maakies is one of the most popular weekly comic strips in America, running in ten of the largest U.S. weekly newspapers, including the L.A. New Times and Seattle Stranger. This first collection, designed by Chip Kidd and Millionaire, reprints every strip from its 1994...
| Author | Ernie Bushmiller |
| ISBN | 1606993607 |
A funny thing happened on the way to comic-strip immortality. For many years, Ernie Bushmiller 's Nancy, with its odd-looking, squat heroine, nearly abstract art, and often super-corny gags, was perceived as the stodgiest, squarest comic strip in the world. Popular with newspaper readers, true...
| Author | Michael Kupperman |
| ISBN | 1606991647 |
Fans and comedy cognoscenti alike, basking devotedly in the glow of Tales Designed to Thrizzle, have made it the smash hit humor comic of the decade. And now the first four issues of Michael Kupperman s revered series are finally collected into one deluxe hardcover. Even better, Kupperman has taken...
Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!
| Author | E.C. Segar |
| ISBN | 1560977795 |
Fantagraphics' Popeye series will collect the complete run of Segar's Thimble Theatre comic strip (dailies and color Sundays) featuring Popeye, re-establishing Segar as one of the first rank of cartoonists who have elevated the comic strip to art. He was the most popular cartoonist of his day, his...
| Author | Kevin Huizenga |
| ISBN | 1560977620 |
Kevin Huizenga introduces his everyman Glenn Ganges (previously seen in the acclaimed Drawn and Quarterly Showcase and Or Else) to the "Ignatz" family with this suite of all-new stories. Ganges tries to decide what to do when confronted with "The Litterer"; gets into an argument with his wife Wendy...
| Author | John Pham |
| ISBN | 1560979461 |
Two white supremacist brothers live in the midst of an “ethnic” urban flood along with a dog they’ve trained as a weapon. A household made up of three renters, a landlord who never leaves her attic bedroom, and her son, who insists on wearing a sheet over his head all the time. A pack of ravenous stray...
| Author | Winsor McCay |
| ISBN | 3822863009 |
Little Nemo: 1905-1914 contains every Little Nemo newspaper strip from its prime era.
I first encountered Little Nemo in a NES game about a thousand years ago. Since then, everyone from Bill Watterson to Moebius cites him as an influence. I found this on the cheap and decided to dive in.
First...
Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 3
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 1897299559 |
Moomin has been swiftly making its way into the hearts of North Americans ever since Drawn & Quarterly began collecting the strip in 2006. It debuted in the London Evening News in 1954 and has become the fastest-selling D+Q series to date. Fifty years ago, Tove Jansson’s observations of everyday...
