Non Sequitur's Sunday Color Treasury: Volume 6

by Wiley Miller

Non Sequitur creator Wiley Miller truly broke the cartoon mold when he first published his strip in 1992. This hugely popular cartoon is chock-full of witty observations on life's idiosyncrasies. The name of the comic strip comes from the Latin translation of "it does not follow." Each strip or panel stands on its own individual merits. Strips do not follow in a sequence and are not related. Non Sequitur's characters are not central...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0740754483
• ISBN13: 9780740754487
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 10.8"
• Age Range: 15 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 10 and higher

Customer Reviews

Wonderful

This book is a joy, only wish there were more available. If you like Calvin & Hobbes, this will really tickle your funny bone.

Non Sequitur

This is a graphic book that can be enjoyed by a child, but is even better when the child becomes an adult. There is often more insight in a few cartoon panels than in an review on the editorial page of major newspapers. Wiley Miller is the greatest.

Non Sequitur's Sunday Color Treasury

This picture book gives excellent insight into Miller's career. He is one of the best and most subtle political cartoonists active today. He is right on so much of the time especially with the set of morons making the news these days.

One to treasure

Wiley is one of my favorite cartoonists. Not just my favorite - the National Cartoonists Society named "Non Sequitur" Best of the year, before it even a year old! These strips cover a variety of Wiley's sub-categories: Danae and Lucy (think the dark side Calvin and Hobbes), Obviousman the balding superhero, Cap'n Eddie and his tall tales, and Ele's new idea of how the dinosaurs became extinct - much the way our species is driving itself into the ground right now. I'm torn. I want more of each, but if I get more of one, I get less of the others. And I want Wiley's other kinds of creativity, too. Page 88, especially that second cartoon - well, cartoons don't have to be funny to be good. That one is very good. That vertical format for his Sunday comics, that's no accident. Wiley realized that the ever-shrinking sunday funnies, trying to cram more into less paper, was leaving odd gaps on the page. Cartoonists, Wiley included, are always competing for space on the page. Like any successful scavenger, he discovered a resource he could use without competition, those weird spaces that his vertical strips filled perfectly. Any cartoonist that solve problems like that for the newspaper editors has a valuable advantage. Wiley also says he was the first to use "process color", real halftones, on the funny page, where everyone else used (and use) big, solid patches of color. I can't vouch for the claim, but it is a distinguishing feature of his comics, and adds a lot to his expressive style. As with Wiley's other collections, I have only one complaint. There's never enough Wiley in the book - but I'd probably say that up to the day he publishes "The Complete Wiley." Even then I'd want more. //wiredweird