 | Peanuts: A Golden Celebration: The Art and the Story of the World's Best-Loved Comic Strip by Charles M. Schulz
Buy used from: $0.78 The late great Charles Schulz mastered simplicity and philosophy to the point that you don't even recognize how deep these cartoons actually are. The characters are based on all of us.
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 | Krazy Kat by Patrick McDonnell
Buy used from: $16.99 Considering this comic strip started in 1915, it was decades ahead of it's time. The backgrounds, the dialect, the stories . . Herriman was a great thinker and effective artist. Influence is huge.
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 | Little Nemo: 1905-1914 (Evergreen) by Winsor McCay
Buy used from: $79.96 Dimension/perspective defied and madness defined, Nemo's Slumberland allowed the reader to experience the Kool-Aid acid test long before the Sixties. You wish he'd never wake up in the last panel.
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 | Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness by Berkeley Breathed
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $0.01 What most short-sighted people considered a Doonesbury rip-off, I saw as an outlet for the vein of modern Americana. Extremely funny and absurd, this is one that wasn't supposed to die.
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 | The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.01 Fellow Ohioan Bill Watterson paints a picture of the disillusioned individual through a six-year-old boy and his pet tiger. An original idea that hit closer to home than meets the eye.
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 | His Kisses Are Dreamy...but Those Hairballs Down My Cleavage...!: Another Tender Outland Collection by Berke Breathed
Buy used from: $0.01 Bloom County on hallucinogens. What started off as an inventive comic strip turned into Bloom County as it was destined to. But still great, even if it was a Sundays only strip.
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 | Wildly FoxTrot : A FoxTrot Treasury by Bill Amend
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.79 Although the author gets a tad too masturbatory with all of the ornate references, it's still enjoyable for Jason and his iguana.
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 | The astrosmurf (A Smurf adventure) by Peyo
Buy used from: $0.01 Before they became one of the most annoying kids shows of all time, this was once a great comic strip with innovative design.
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 | Fresh For '01... You Suckas: A Boondocks Collection by Aaron McGruder
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $1.11 Had to add this one. McGruder's two angry young men and their grandfather make for a smart, culturally conscious new comic strip that challenges the status quo and the mainstream.
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 | Don't Roll Your Eyes At Me, Young Man! A Zits Sketchbook 3 by Jim Borgman
Buy new: $8.79 / Used from: $2.45 One of the reasons to keep reading the comics. Possibly the best new strip in the past three years. A more realistic view of teenagers than we're used to seeing.
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 | Emmanuelle, Bianca and Venus in Furs (Evergreen Series) by Guido Crepax
Buy used from: $29.98 Although Americans never got to see this (thanks to priggish editors that still think it's 1900), Crepax was a master at erotica and stretched the bounds of the average comic strip with his work.
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 | Explore Black History With Wee Pals by Morrie Turner; Morrie Tumer
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.30 Possibly the most ethnically and racially diverse comic strip ever. Heavy handed at times, brilliant at others.
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 | Get Ziggy With It by Jim Wilson
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.34 You got to hand it to Ziggy - anyone else with his kind of luck would have jumped by now. One panel says a thousand words.
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