Interspersed with editorial comments throughout and an essay by Walker on his life and career.

This year promises to be the biggest year Beetle Bailey has had. Among the projects scheduled are: Beetle Bailey, the All-American Musical; a line of food and a retail store featuring Beetle dolls; posters and paraphernalia; a live-action movie; and Beetle Bailey Celebration, a collection of Beetle Bailey daily and Sunday strips.

This penultimate work in John Lent's series of bibliographies on comic art gathers together an astounding array of citations on American cartoonists and their work. Author John Lent has used all manner of methods to gather the citations, searching library and online databases, contacting scholars and other professionals, attending conferences and festivals, and scanning hundreds of periodicals. He has gone to great length to categorize the citations in an easy-to-use, scholarly fashion, and in the process, has helped to establish the field of comic art as an important part of social science and humanities research. The ten volumes in this series, covering all regions of the world, constitute the largest printed bibliography of comic art in the world, and serve as the beacon guiding the burgeoning fields of animation, comics, and cartooning. They are the definitive works on comic art research, and are exhaustive in their inclusiveness, covering all types of publications (academic, trade, popular, fan, etc.) from all over the world. Also included in these books are citations to systematically-researched academic exercises, as well as more ephemeral sources such as fanzines, press articles, and fugitive materials (conference papers, unpublished documents, etc.), attesting to Lent's belief that all pieces of information are vital in a new field of study such as comic art.

Get ready to meet the sorriest, sorest and saddest excuses of soldiers the French Foreign Legion has ever seen as they suffer under the scorching desert sun and tyrannical rule of the crafty, cunning and cruel Commandant Crock. From National Cartoonist Award winners Brant Parker and Bill Rechin comes The Best of Crock – a collection featuring over 670 comic strips selected from 1975 – 1985, a history of the strip, biographies of both creators and a foreword written by Kevin Rechin.