Bookshelf #27

This week's bookshelf is right below last week's and is thus also in the busted old entertainment center that I have stuffed full of books. The organizing principal seems to be comic strips. As you can see, there's work from a giant in the field, Winsor McCay (a Little Nemo collection and a Checker-published collection of McCay's early work, with an unfortunate cover) as well as a couple of collections of popular mainstream strips Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes and Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks. Most of the other collections are of what I guess what would be considered "alternative" comics, like Tony Millionaire's Maakies, Neil Swaab's Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles (about a foul-mouthed degenerate talking teddy bear that far predated Seth MacFarlane's Ted stuff), the work of Keith Knight and a Ted Rall-edited collection with the phrase "alternative cartoonists" right there in the title. Oh, and a paper collection of Chris Onstad's webcomic Achewood.You'll notice there are several…