Cat Crazy: A Mutts Treasury (Volume 22)

The beloved characters of Earl and Mooch are back in a collection of a years worth of color Sunday and black-and-white daily cartoons. Shining through this artful delicious anddare I sayadorable confection is Patrick McDonnells love affair with old comic strips. His Mutts evokes an effervescent bliss drawn from a century-old tradition dating from Buster Brown to Charlie Brown that in an instant turns words and pictures into poetic-play. And oh how Mr. McDonnell can play. His joyful meditation brings glee (in a balloon of course) to an old cartoonists heart. JULES FEIFFER cartoonist I used to think the classic newspaper comic strip was dead but Mutts proves there really is some kind of life after death: Its a playful visual pleasure that knows its comic strip heritage without wearing it on its sleeve its smart without being pretentious and its sweet without being cloying. Its a miracle! ART SPIEGELMAN cartoonist In 1994 Patrick McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. McDonnell has received numerous awards for this strip including the National Cartoonists Societys highest honor the Reuben for Cartoonist of the Year five Harvey Awards for Best Comic Strip Germanys Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip and the Swedish Academy of Comic Arts Adamson Statuette. In this 17th chronological collection of Mutts strips a years worth of color Sunday strips and black-and-white daily strips are included along with pop-art splash pages that highlight McDonnells imaginative artwork and distinctive style.