The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 7, 1990–1992

If you’re already a fan of the much-beloved Funky Winkerbean comic strip, you will need no introduction to this seventh volume collection of Tom Batiuk’s well-crafted work. If you do need an introduction, however, my best way of describing it would be that this is a serial you can get deeply involved in, because all the characters are real. They have depth, they are human, their lives twist, turn, evolve, interweave, and once you’ve experienced them, you feel you have always known them, and yet they continue to surprise and delight (and often have you hanging at the edge of your seat as you await the resolution of a cliff-hanger)! The very real impression that the characters in this hopefully never-ending story are truly alive is reinforced by our unique (for comic strips) experience of witnessing them age and evolve along with us. They often do this with much humor (Hey! It’s the comics!), but with much drama as well.Volume 7 of the Complete Funky Winkerbean series covers the strips published during the years 1990-1992. The six earlier volumes in toto cover the years 1972 through 1989. Collect ’em all! (I must point out, the quality of these volumes are grand, glorious, and gorgeous. Kudos to The Kent State University Press/Black Squirrel Books for a superb production!) I personally already am anxious for the next volume, and the next, and . . . ! I am always anxious for the arrival of tomorrow morning’s “funny pages” so I may enjoy the next installment of the current Funky Winkerbean story—because, I’m hooked! (And, I’m sure you will be, too.)These are the classics they should have allowed me to write my book reports on in high school!