This collection presents, in a single volume, an extensive gallery of newspaper comics, an anthology which the editors hope offers some memorable and amusing art and narrative.The comic strip is essentially a narrative art, A well-conceived story, character, or incident can make clumsy or barely competent art work functionally acceptable, much as a strong story and good character actors may redeem films with slipshod camera and directional work. Indeed, some strip artists were, by strict standards of draftsmanship or graphics, no artists at all. What they had was a point of view (a sometimes rowdy point of view, to be sure) on the human animal and his attitudes and actions, and a functional means to convet it.