Aaron Strips

(Image, 1997, 1999)
™ and ©1997 Amazing Aaron Productions

Aaron Warner scored a surprise hit with his syndicated strip “The Adventures of Aaron,” which runs in Sunday papers from coast to coast. This four-issue series reprints the early Aaron strips for those unlucky enough to have missed them in their original run.

A big part of Warner’s secret is his use of comic book techniques in the relatively staid world of Sunday comic strips. Warner uses dynamic, even bizarre, panel layouts, a detailed art style, and lush, computerized coloring to make a comic that jumps off the page when compared to more conventional strips. The title character is an affable teenage loser with a wacky family and an obsession with the local Binko’s copy center girl. In addition to chronicling Aaron’s misadventures, Warner rounds out the strip with a goofy collection of games and puzzles. The only complaint is that this black-and-white series omits the eye-catching coloring of the original strips.

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Writer

Artist

#1

April, 1997
Cover Price: $2.95
8 copies available from $0.99

Aaron Warner

#2

June, 1997
Cover Price: $2.95
5 copies available from $1.75

Aaron Warner

#3

August, 1997
Cover Price: $2.95
5 copies available from $1.50

Aaron Warner

#4

October, 1997
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $2.98

Aaron Warner

#5

January, 1999
Cover Price: $2.95
1 copy available for $12.98

Aaron Warner