George Herriman's Krazy Kat: A Celebration of Sundays (2010)

George Herriman's Sunday pages are where an American newspaper strip started to look like modern art. The plot barely changes: a mouse throws a brick at a lovestruck cat and a dog in a police helmet locks the mouse up. Everything around them changes constantly. The desert of Coconino County, drawn from Arizona's buttes and spires, shifts from panel to panel, so a hill becomes a tree or a moon while the characters keep talking. Herriman also broke the grid, with panels of every shape arranged however the joke needed. This 14 by 17 inch Sunday Press book reprints the pages at their original size, which suits a strip built on landscape, though it is out of print and worth hunting secondhand. The dialect lettering takes a while to get used to.