 | The Poor Bastard by Joe Matt
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $8.74 Joe Matt's very funny, self-effacing autobiographical account of pornography, masturbation, spoiled realtionships, misanthropy and more pornography.
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 | Fair Weather by Joe Matt
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.99 You want to know what makes a neurotic man? . . . a neurotic boy.
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 | Spent by Joe Matt
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.90 And, to complete the cycle.
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 | Epileptic by David B.
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $4.99 Recommended for epileptics and nonepileptics alike. In short, it's for everyone.
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 | Jimbo by Gary Panter
Buy used from: $15.00 A punk-rock-crooked-comic.
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 | Jimbo in Purgatory by Gary Panter
Buy used from: $37.69 A little bit more esoteric than other Jimbo.
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| Ed the Happy Clown; the Defintive Ed Book by CHESTER BROWN
Buy used from: $35.20 Ronald Reagan's official unauthorized biography, and it's all true!
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 | Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography by Chester Brown
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $7.18 Canadian history boring, you say? Well, even if it is, this book is not! A funny mix of history, drama, adventure- All in one comic. This is definitely one of my favorites
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 | Paul Has A Summer Job by Michel Rabagliati
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $4.14 Proof that you can be nostalgic for experiences that were never your own.
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 | The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $5.92 80 years and 10 lbs of New Yorker cartoons. Lots of people are dissatisfied with the PDF containing the bulk of the pictures. But even so, this is a great collection.
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 | R. Crumb's Carload O' Comics : An Anthology of Choice Strips and Stories : 1968 to 1976 by Robert Crumb
Buy used from: $27.99 Crumb puts the 'psycho' in psychosexual and this is some of his psychosexualiest. Adults Only!
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 | The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
Buy used from: $239.99 The scary kind of funny.
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 | Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics by Smithsonian Institution
Buy used from: $60.00 This book will change your life - a good way to get into the history of comic strips.
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 | Krazy & Ignatz 1929-1930: "A Mice, A Brick, A Lovely Night" (Krazy Kat) by George Herriman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.99 Voted #1 comic of the 20th century - weird in a great way.
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 | Krazy & Ignatz 1937-1938: Shifting Sands Dusts Its Cheeks in Powdered Beauty (Krazy Kat) by George Herriman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.99 Or, if you prefer color . . .
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| Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett
Buy used from: $22.90 I read somewhere that Cliff Sterret's cartooning style got so wild that his editor had to reel him in. I also read somewhere that his work from the 1920s is an excellent visual counterpart to the Jazz music that was all the rage back then. One look at the cartoons in this book and you will know what they were talking about.
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 | Walt and Skeezix: Book One (Bk. 1) by Frank King
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $14.50 Many may find this one boring. You, however, will love it. Gentle story, beautifully drawn.
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 | Sundays with Walt and Skeezix by Frank King
Buy new: $79.00 / Used from: $60.40 You will never be satisfied with shrunken comic strips again. At 22x16 inches it presents full size Sundays.
Gasoline Alley won't be for everyone. It's got a gentility that makes it easily overlooked. It gives off a style of consciousness or something- Like a feeling that not many people have experienced since these were published in the 1920s.
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 | Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! by Winsor McCay
Buy used from: $437.36 Another Huge, 21x16.2 inches Sunday comics strip. While I'm not a huge fan of the story, that criticism is like belittling the lawn at the Taj Mahal. The artwork is beautiful, enough even to be appreciated by comic-haters.
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 | The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz
Buy new: $19.11 / Used from: $6.75 The beginning of a classic. Snoopy isn't walking upright, Linus hasn't been born and Charlie Brown isn't a wuss.
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| Arf! The life and hard times of Little Orphan Annie, 1935-1945 by Harold Gray
Buy used from: $11.90 Don't even think of the Broadway play. Dark, to say the least, Annie witnesses murder by hatchet, gun, strangulation and explosion. But, gosh darn it, she just keeps that bubbly outlook on life! My favorite strip is the one in which Daddy Warbucks considers murdering Annie... This collection is sort of rough, but from 1935-1945, it covers an interesting period.
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| A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics
Buy used from: $1.68 This book will change your life (but not as much as the Newspaper Comics collection). -And check out that price!
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 | Powerhouse Pepper by Basil Wolverton
Buy used from: $30.74 Just what comics should be: Bizarre, pointless and (seemingly) effortless.
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 | Lulu Goes Shopping (Marge's Little Lulu Volume 4) (v. 1) by John Stanley
Buy used from: $4.50 Why is this so funny? It's expertly drawn and captures mischievous kids and how they infuriate and frustrate adults.
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 | Tintin in Tibet (The Adventures of Tintin) by Herge
Buy new: $7.91 / Used from: $4.12 Speaking of expertly drawn, one of the many adventures of Tintin.
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 | Clyde Fans: Book-1 (Bk.1) by Seth
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.94 I don't know what it is about this one. . . I read it, and didn't think much about it until I realized that I was always thinking about it.
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 | Wimbledon Green by Seth
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.99 Seth, only funnier.
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 | Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $12.34 Excellently depressing.
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 | From Hell by Alan Moore
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $15.96 A dark and scratchy classic. You expect a story about Jack the Ripper to be weird, but not weird like this.
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 | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.73 Here's another Alan Moore story.
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 | Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries 1900-1969 by Dan Nadel
Buy new: $29.20 / Used from: $20.00 The best of obscure, bizzare comics??? It could be.
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