Al Jaffee Gags #W9546

Al Jaffee's own hand is all over this Signet paperback collection — quite literally, as the cover he both penciled and inked features a wild-eyed, curly-haired cartoon figure laughing so hard he's practically launched into the air, tongue out and limbs flailing amid bursts of comic energy. The tagline promises "horrendous humor," and Jaffee's loose, gleefully exaggerated linework makes a convincing case before you've even cracked the spine. A fine sampler of one of cartooning's most inventive comic minds, gathered in one affordable 1980 package.