What Comic Strip Collections Do You Own?

[Mistral]

I have The Complete Calvin & Hobbes.

It weighs a million pounds.

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.)

I still have an issue of New Times(an AZ local publication) with Life In Hell in it. It was by an unknown artist named Matt Groenig.

I also have every Farside trade paperback and a complete collection of Bloom County, including the 45 of Billy and the Boingers.

What that says about my sense of humor, I do not know.

 

[Harvey]

The Complete Far Side
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

I have almost every big volume of Fox Trot, although I don't have the last 2 or 3 big volumes.

 

[ToddPence]

My two favorite comic strips of all time are "Peanuts" and "Doonesbury". I am trying to collect the Complete Peanuts (although I'm currently a few volumes behind), and I have a CD-rom with every Doonesbury strip up through 1997. I collect other strip anthologies as well. One of my favorite current comic strips is "Pearls Before Swine".
I also used to know artist Frank Cho, who once had a strip called "Liberty Meadows". I've got a couple of those collections signed by him.
Probably the most valuable comic strip collections I have are the three paperback collections of "Funky Winkerbean" originally turned out in the 1970's. Amazon.com has the total value of these three volumes as over $300 used. I paid maybe a dime or a quarter each for them originally.

 

[Kail]

Great to see all the Calvin and Hobbes love. The complete collection is HUGE, but I thought well worth the $$. My wife didn't, but that's another story. (/:-)

 

[Worf2DS9]

I don't have the Complete Calvin and Hobbes, but I do have all the smaller volumes that go into it. Damn, I loved that strip.

 

[D Man]

I have all the Calvin & Hobbes compilations, but not the smaller ones. Essential, Authoritative, and something else, then all the long-format ones to fit the (always awesome) re-done Sunday format. According the 10th anniversary book, Attack of the Killer Mutant Monster Snow Goons was never put into a compilation (other than the complete set, of course) so I guess that's the only one I'm missing.

 

[shapeshifter]

All of The Far Side.

 

[Steve67]

I'm still working on completing my collection of Kitchen Sink Press' Steve Canyon Magazine comic strip. The recent Checker Books reprints can't compare to those Kitchen Sink mags, plus there's the wonderful historical supplementary material which goes into artist Milton Canniff's life and career.

 

[Velocity]

Peanuts, Bloom County, Calvin & Hobbes, Get Fuzzy, Foxtrot, Dilbert, and Pearls Before Swine

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

In this house we have the complete set of Calvin & Hobbes many Peanuts and many Garfield.