LOAC ESSENTIALS is a series that reprints, in yearly volumes, the daily newspaper strips that are essential to comics history, seminal strips that are unique creations in their own right, while also significantly contributing to the advancement of the medium. The strips are presented in a novel format: 11.5″ wide by 4.25″ high, each page containing a single daily. Reproducing the strips one per page in an oblong format allows us to have an experience similar to what newspaper buyers had many decades ago—reading the comics one day at a time. Each page also showcases the title given to that daily by the cartoonist, plus the weekday and date.