Barnaby #4

Crockett Johnson's warmly witty newspaper strip gets another handsome collected edition with this fourth volume from Fantagraphics. The cover says it all: young Barnaby gazes upward with characteristic wide-eyed curiosity at a rotund, green-suited fairy godfather dozing contentedly atop a horse, the whole scene rendered in Johnson's deceptively simple, endlessly charming linework. If you've been following this series, Volume Four is exactly the continuation you've been waiting for.