There are so many high-quality classic comic strips coming out right now, it’s really amazing and overwhelming. In a way, to me, they seem to have come out of nowhere, but I guess it’s a trend that has taken off over the last five years or so. Unfortunately, I’ve already fallen frustratingly behind. The main one I’m into right now is Dick Tracy, but I only started reading it last spring and have only just got into volume two. I’m staggered to think they've already published twelve of these and a couple of them seem to have already gone out of print and are getting pricey. Definitely it’s one of my 2012 goals to start trying to catch up on my classic strip reading and pick up those volumes before they disappear. I’m also reading the Little Orphan Annie collections, but am only about halfway through the first book (there are seven so far!), and the second book of Walt and Skeezix Gasoline Alley (there are five).
I also recently picked up the first two Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strip collections, the new Johnny Hazard package, and started reading the Captain Easy Sunday strips. That’s a lot of comics! I need to pick up the rest of those Popeye reprints too (I only have the first two). I’m hoping 2012 will be a year filled with the reading of some of these huge collections. I probably want to put more time into that than reading regular books for the first time in a long, long time. At least that's how I've felt the last few weeks. It's always a challenge to find the time and balance for all this stuff I would like to read and do.
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