Sam's Strip
“A mixture of fourth-wall breaking, political commentary, and gag cartooning of both the highest and lowest order…a cult classic.” (Chad Nevett - Comic Book Resources)“If you ever had more than a passing interest in newspaper strips, you owe it to yourself to check out this collection.” (KC Carlson - Comics Worth Reading)“Sam's Stripwas an interesting comic in its own right. The phrase 'ahead of its own time' is one that's bandied about frequently when discussing it, and even now the juxtapositions within it are occasionally surreal enough to cause amusement through their sheer audacity... As small a fact as it may be, the near-flawless execution of the book helps to make it feel like more of a prestige package, a celebration of the series rather than just a cheap cash-in... [T]his straightforward but well-made collection is a thoroughly worthy purchase.” (Andrew Williams - Den of Geek)“How on earth didSam’s Strip…fail to set the funny pages on fire back in 1961…? The answer—provided through this complete collection of 500 strips—is that the time just wasn’t right. Well, it certainly is now.” (J. Caleb Mozzocco - Las Vegas Weekly)“A cult favorite emerges into the bright light of reprintage. I didn’t witness any ofSam’s Stripduring its maiden voyage….I first saw a few of the daily releases and promptly, forthwith, joined the cult—that feverish bank of comics cognoscenti who knew enough about the annals of the medium to relish every nuanced historical allusion that creators Mort Walker and Jerry Dumas were able to insinuate so fondly into this comic strip about being a comic strip.” (R. C. Harvey - Rants & Raves)“Walker and Dumas clearly take pleasure in working in callbacks to classic comic strips... [and] many of the metatextual gags are funny and fun. ... Dumas’s drawings of classic comic-strip characters are excellent.” (Shaenon Garrity - The Comics Journal)