Not terribly well-reproduced, and available in other anthologies, but any Pogo is a good Pogo. Recommended reading for anyone who (a) likes good pen work (b) has a silly sense of humor and loves word play (c) despairs about the current state of the world, because it is a bracing reminder that the state of the world was always pretty bad. ( )

Of the more recent comics, I think this is most similar to Calvin and Hobbes. ( )

OK, I'm old. But no contemporary cartoonist (with the possible exception of Stephan Pastis) has so accurately skewered American social mores as Walt Kelly did for so may years. They still resonate. ( )