 | Evil Chickens Don't Kiss: Goats: Volume III by Jonathan Rosenberg
Goats (http://www.goats.com) is probably the best cartoon strip that's never been syndicated in newspapers.
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 | Flashbacks: Twenty-Five Years of Doonesbury by G. B. Trudeau
Buy used from: $0.70 Unfortunately most of the original books are out of print, but this is probably the best Trudeau collection readily available.
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 | Abs Of Steel, Buns Of Cinnamon: A Cathy Collection by Cathy Guisewite
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 Yeah, I like "Cathy." Wanna make something of it? Growing up without sisters, it was a great way to gain insight into the female mind.
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 | Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness by Berkeley Breathed
Buy new: $17.09 / Used from: $0.01 Again, most of the originals are out of print; this collection spans the best Berke Breathed had to offer, though.
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 | Get Down!! Dog Cartoons by John Callahan
Buy used from: $0.01 Perhaps one of the most twisted individuals ever to put pen to paper.
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 | When We Can't See The Forest For The Bushes by Pat Oliphant
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.63 Not the best-known political cartoonist, but certainly one of the most daring.
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 | The Indispensable Calvin And Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.33 Like Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes was short-lived enough to go out at the top of its game.
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 | Peanuts Treasury by Charles M. Schulz
Buy used from: $0.01 To my mind, Shultz created the first modern comic strip, and probably still the best. We miss you, Chuck.
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 | Another Day In Cubicle Paradise: A Dilbert Book by Scott Adams
Buy new: $9.34 / Used from: $0.27 Sometimes I think Dilbert would be better if Scott Adams hadn't quit his day job, but it's still pretty funny to be able to recognize your own workplace on every page.
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 | Two Guys Fooling Around with the Moon by B. Kliban
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.41 I respect anybody who has the guts to put the bizarre surrealism in his head down on paper for the world to see.
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 | The Chickens Are Restless by Gary Larson
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $0.01 Gary's surrealism was just a little bit more harmless than B. Kliban's... which made it more accessible and more popular.
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 | Family Business: For Better Or For Worse Collection by Lynn Johnston
Buy used from: $1.84 The only popular comic strip I know of where characters age in (more or less) real time.
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 | Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper by Aaron McGruder
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $2.13 Unafraid and unapologetically controversial, some of the funniest strips of the last few years are McGruder's.
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 | The I Hate Unicorns Book
Buy used from: $2.99 Unicorns were huge with teenage girls in the 1980s; this book skewers everything about them, and it's beautiful. Take my word, not the lack of info on Amazon's page.
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 | I Try to Take One Day at a Time, but Sometimes Several Days Attack Me at Once by Ashleigh Brilliant
Buy used from: $0.07 It's hard to believe this is difficult to obtain. Brilliant's humor is warped, but subtly - it sneaks up on you.
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