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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  • 1
    #1
    Apr 1997
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Aaron Warner  ·  A: Aaron Warner
    10 copies from $0.75
  • 2
    #2
    Jun 1997
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Aaron Warner  ·  A: Aaron Warner
    5 copies from $0.80
  • 3
    #3
    Aug 1997
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Aaron Warner  ·  A: Aaron Warner
    4 copies from $1.50
  • 4
    #4
    Oct 1997
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Aaron Warner  ·  A: Aaron Warner
    Goes to Amazing Aaron Productions; Has Aaron Warner’s Year of the Monkey back-up
    1 copy for $2.98
  • 5
    #5
    Jan 1999
    Cover: $2.95
    W: Aaron Warner  ·  A: Aaron Warner
    Continued numbering from Image series
    1 copy for $12.98