A retrospective treasury of the family strip created by Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey) and Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible). 300 dailies & over 80 Sundays from 1954-1985. Filled with lively commentary by Walker and Browne, biographies of both artists, ads and promotional material from the early days of the strip, specialty drawings, and much more interesting material. Out of print.

From the publisher:

Since its debut in 1954, Hi and Lois, the quintessential family comic strip, has chronicled the changing (and yet unchanging) life of the American family. Hi, Lois, Chip, Ditto, and Trixie (sitting in her sunbeam) have tracked the daily life of the baby boomers and their folks, from the trials and pleasures of good old family life to the passing fancies of the day_coonskin caps to video games. Readers who once followed the strip from Chip and Dot's angle, as kids, now see things more from Hi and Lois's point of view, as parents shepherding their own families along. For 32 years two of the great comic-strip masters of our time--Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker and Dik "Hagar the Horrible" Browne--have worked together to make this one of the most enduringly popular and widely read of strips. It appears in over 1,000 newspapers daily, and is one of the half dozen most popular strips in the world. The Best of Hi and Lois is truly the ultimate collection. With close to 300 daily strips and more than 80 Sunday pages from 1954 to the present, plus special drawings and a behind-the-scenes look at how the strip is created, it forms an affectionately funny retrospective on four different decades of American family life.