What Comic Strip Collections Do You Own?

[Dayton3]

I've loved the Comics for years.

I own

1) Hagar the Horrible-dozens of small book collections
2) Foxtrot -all the large collections
3) Mallard Fillmore -both collections
4) Gil Thorp -one collection of this great sports comic
5) Calvin and Hobbes - one of these
6) The Far Side - several of these collections
7) Doonebury - a couple of the early collections
8) Dilbert -two of these, would like more
9) Mother Goose & Grimm- two of these

That's all I can think of off hand.

Several collections of political cartoons as well though.

 

[Rÿcher]

Foxtrot!

can't get enough of those guys!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Oh, man, lots. I love newspaper comics.

I've got BC, Doonesbury, Bloom Country, Far Side, Lio, Dykes To Watch Out For, The Flying McCoys, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, Safe Havens, Flash Gordon and more. I also subscribe to Comics Revue. And I have various collections of panel cartoons by guys like Sidney Harris and Gahan Wilson; plus that huge collection of New Yorker cartoons.

I think this Thread would be more at home in TV & Media, so I'm going to send it over there.

 

[Kail]

I have the Complete Calvin and Hobbes.

 

[tharpdevenport]

ALL of The Far Side. All the Anthologys, the Prehistory big book, and the Last Chapter and Worst that contains the final stripes and 13 brand new ones made for the book which did not appear in the newspapers. I'm not counting the LArson book "There's A Hair In My Dirt".

I also have two Dilbert ones.

 

[TGTheodore]

Calvin and Hobbes
The Far Side

and I'm buying the complete Peanuts as each volume is available.

--Ted

 

[T'Bonz]

Andy Capp
Peanuts (getting the hardbound ones as they are published.)
Family Circus
Wizard of Id (one of my favorites.)

 

[Misfit Toy]

All Calvin and Hobbes
All Far Side
All Bloom County (no Outland)
Three Dilbert
Three For Better or Worse
One Doonesbury
One Foxtrot

 

[T'Baio]

I have The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

It weighs a million pounds.

 

[M'Sharak]

The Far Side Gallery -Gary Larson
The PreHistory of the Far Side - Gary Larson
Work Is Hell - Matt Groening (Life in Hell)
Potluck Pogo - Walt Kelly (Pogo)
R. Crumb's America - Robert Crumb
Fear of a Black Marker - Keith Knight (The 'K' Chronicles)

Still need to get a couple of Krazy Kat collections.


Also:

Drawn and Quartered - Paul Conrad (editorial/political cartoons)

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

Peanuts vol. 1 - 3
Dennis the Menace vol. 1

 

[Cicero]

Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon 1-7
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes
Get Fuzzy Treasury 1
Superman: The Sunday Classics

 

[johnsonalmighty]

Calvin and Hobbes: All
Pooch Cafe: Up to date

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Peanuts, absolutely.

I'm also getting IDW's Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, which look exactly like the Fantagraphics Peanuts volumes; why mess with perfection?

Next year Fantagraphics is supposed to start rereleasing the Hal Foster Prince Valiant collections, and those are on my "Must Buy!" list. I just got the first Mark Schultz/Gary Gianni collection, and it's nice.

 

[TGTheodore]

I have The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

It weighs a million pounds.

I believe it qualifies in some states as a lethal weapon. I know I had to get a permit for mine.

--Ted

 

[Smiley]

The only one I'm collecting is Fox Trot. I do enjoy The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes, but I prefer them in smaller doses.

 

[Lindley]

I have a few of the newspaper strip (Dilbert, C&H, etc) books here and there. Don't really recall which ones.

Also Sluggy Freelance Megatome #1 Born of Nifty and #2 Little Evils, both hardcover, and Books #7-9 (A Very Big Bang, Fire and Rain, and Dangerous Days). I believe #7 is the only one that's not in hardcover.

I have Rooster Teeth comics volume 1, but I haven't read it yet.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I have The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

It weighs a million pounds.

I think it set a record for heaviest book ever to appear on the New York Times bestseller list.

I don't have that but I do have all of the Calvin & Hobbes strips in the earlier, smaller books.

I may still have a bunch of B.C., Dennis the Menace, & The Wizard of Id somewhere in my closet.

I have a few different Dilbert overview collections.

I have the 1st Pearls Before Swine treasury.

And I have the 1st collection of F Minus autographed along with a rough self-portrait of the author. I feel a certain degree of pride that F Minus went national so quickly. I used to read it when it was just in the college newspaper at Arizona State University. (He & I graduated the same year.)

Phoenix is a great town for hometown pride when it comes to comic strips. We're home to the creators of both F Minus and Baby Blues. (Though, it is with some shame that I must also admit that we produced Bill Keane of The Family Circus. I'm so sorry.)

 

[zakkrusz]

My comic collection consists of:

Ai Yori Aoshi (Volumes 1-17 Completed)
Black Lagoon (Volumes 1-3)
Bleach (Volumes 1-25)
Chobits (Volumes 1-8 Completed)
Claymore (Volumes 1-13)
Code Geass (Volume 1)
Fate/Stay Night (Volume 1)
Gunslinger Girl (Volumes 1-6)
Hellsing (Volumes 1-9)
Infinite Ryvius (Volumes 1-2 Completed)
Lunar Legend Tsukihime (Volumes 1-5)
Midori Days (Volumes 1-8 Completed)
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Episode Zero
Mobile Suit Gundam: Ecole du Ciel (Volumes 1-2)
My-HIME (Volumes 1-5 Completed)
Planetes (Volumes 1-5 Completed)
Scryed (Volumes 1-5 Completed)
Seikai Trilogy (Volumes 1-3 Completed)
Suzuka (Volumes 1-10)
Yu Yu Hakusho (Volumes 1-10)

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Oh, I also collect Mutts. How can I forget Mutts? Mooch and Earl will never forgive me.

One of my favorite late Peanuts strips has the gang at an art museum in a single panel strip. Charlie Brown and his friends are all looking at a painting, perhaps a Matisse. Over to the side, Rerun looks at a painting on the wall. It's Earl.

I identify with Rerun. He and I are the same age, give or take. When Peanuts, in its last two years or so, turned into the Rerun strip, it gained back some of the fun it had lost. Which lead to my absolute favorite strip in the series -- when Lucy can't hold the football for Charlie Brown to kick, so she asks Rerun to hold it for her. In the final panel she asks, "So what happened?" and Rerun says, "You'll never know." Perfect.