The esteemed cartoonist Sergio Aragonés phones to say he read the website this morning and that I'm right about how someone should reprint Conchy…but the strip that really cries out for collection is Jack Kent's King Aroo. Sergio is correct.
King Aroo ran from 1950 to 1965 without ever setting the world on fire or getting in that many papers. I really know it only from its one paperback collection, which was published in '52, but if it was that good all the time, it was very good. The strip dealt with a sometimes-befuddled, sometimes-whimsical monarch who ruled over the justly-named land of Myopia…and beyond that, it's tough to describe. You kind of have to see it…and I hope that some day soon, we'll all be able to.