List of The Library of American Comics publications
The Library of American Comics is an American publisher of comic strip reprint collections, as an imprint of Clover Press (previously IDW Publishing). Although the publishing of a series is advertised as going to be the "complete collection" of a strip, over a third of all LoAC titles have been discontinued long before being complete, sometimes after only one or two volumes. LoAC Essentials. LoAC Essentials or The Library of American Comics - Essentials is a series of books collecting reprints of classic daily newspaper comic strips, which are considered as essentials of  comic history in different aspects due to their impact on the medium itself, in volumes by strip title and original publication year. LoAC Essentials are published in hardcovers with the odd format of 11.5 inches × 4.25 inches, 292 mm × 108 mm. The comic strips are printed one strip per page in black-and-white together with the original publication date and weekday. Each volume contain one year of a comic strip's run. Extras such as introductions and essays are included in some of the volumes.