If you have room for only one book about Patrick McDonnell's brilliant Mutts comic strip, make it this one. Celebrating the anniversary of the series debut in September 1994, it gathers the best strips and drawings starring Mooch, Earl, and all their animal and human friends. But more than that, this scrapbook goes "behind the scenes," showing a strip as it evolves from a sketch to a boxed drawing, has color added, and finally appears in print. Many original and rarely seen Mutts drawings, clippings, and other artworks are newly photographed here, and the book includes a selection of the delightful illustrated letters that McDonnell exchanges with friend and fellow cartoonist Lynda Barry.