The Complete Funky Winkerbean

Collecting the earliest years of Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper strip, The Complete Funky Winkerbean from Kent State University Press presents the high school misadventures of its title character and his friends in their original black-and-white form. Launched in 2012, this 15-issue series offers a definitive archive of the strip's formative era, preserving the gentle humor and character-driven comedy that made it a beloved staple of American comics. For fans and newcomers alike, it's an essential chronicle of a classic slice-of-life comic's origins.