Alley Oop: The Adventures of a Time-Traveling Caveman

V. T. Hamlin’s Alley Oop newspaper strip ran for decades, but this 1990–1995 Kitchen Sink Press series collected and restored the earliest, wildest adventures of the time-traveling caveman. Across three issues, readers follow Alley Oop and his scientist friend Dr. Elbert Wonmug as they bounce between prehistoric times, the Middle Ages, and other eras—a charming, humorous blend of science fiction and stone-age slapstick. Hamlin himself handled the writing and art, making this a direct look at the strip’s foundational, pre-Calvin and Hobbes influence on comic history.