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The Comic Journal's Top 100 Comics of the 20th Century

The Journal published a 20th-century comics canon in its 210th issue (February 1999). To compile the list, eight contributors and editors made eight separate top 100 (or fewer than 100 for some) lists of American works. These eight lists were then informally combined, and tweaked into an ordered list.
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Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat
1
Peanuts
Peanuts
2
Pogo
Pogo
3
Maus: The Complete Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Maus: The Complete Maus
4
Art Spiegelman
Little Nemo in Slumberland
Little Nemo in Slumberland
5
Feiffer and Sick, Sick, Sick, Jules Feiffer
Feiffer and Sick, Sick, Sick, Jules Feiffer
6
Carl Bark's Donald Duck Comics
Carl Bark's Donald Duck Comics
7
MAD Magazine, Harvey Kurtzman Era
MAD Magazine, Harvey Kurtzman Era
8
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
9
The Weirdo-Era Stories, Robert Crumb
The Weirdo-Era Stories, Robert Crumb
10
Popeye, E.C. Segar
Popeye, E.C. Segar
11
The EC Comics War Stories
The EC Comics War Stories
12
Wigwam Bam, Jaime Hernandez
Wigwam Bam, Jaime Hernandez
13
Blood of Palomar (Love and Rockets #21-26)
Blood of Palomar (Love and Rockets #21-26)
14
The Spirit
The Spirit
15
Raw
Raw
16
Acme Novelty Library
Acme Novelty Library
17
Polly & Her Pals, Cliff Sterrett
Polly & Her Pals, Cliff Sterrett
18
R. Crumb's Sketchbooks
R. Crumb's Sketchbooks
19
Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge
Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge
20
Peter Arno's New Yorker Cartoons
Peter Arno's New Yorker Cartoons
21
The Death of Speedy (Love and Rockets #21-23)
The Death of Speedy (Love and Rockets #21-23)
22
Terry and the Pirates
Terry and the Pirates
23
Flies on the Ceiling, Jaime Hernandez
Flies on the Ceiling, Jaime Hernandez
24
Wash Tubbs, Roy Crane
Wash Tubbs, Roy Crane
25
The Jungle Book, Harvey Kurtzman
The Jungle Book, Harvey Kurtzman
26
Palestine by Joe Sacco
Palestine by Joe Sacco
27
The "Mishkin" Saga, Kim Deitch
The "Mishkin" Saga, Kim Deitch
28
Walt and Skeezix - Gasoline Alley
Walt and Skeezix - Gasoline Alley
29
The Fantastic Four, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
The Fantastic Four, Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
30
Poison River, Gilbert Hernandez
Poison River, Gilbert Hernandez
31
Jack Cole's Plastic Man
Jack Cole's Plastic Man
32
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy
33
Al Hirschfeld's Caricatures
Al Hirschfeld's Caricatures
34
Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Spider-Man, Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
35
Calvin and Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
Calvin and Hobbes
36
Bill Watterson
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
37
The Autobiographical Comics From Yummy Fur, Chester Brown
The Autobiographical Comics From Yummy Fur, Chester Brown
38
Pat Oliphant's Editorial Cartoons
Pat Oliphant's Editorial Cartoons
39
The Kinder-Kids' Lyonel Feininger
The Kinder-Kids' Lyonel Feininger
40
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