B.C. Loneliness Is Rotting on a Bookrack #1-3942-5

Johnny Hart brings his prehistoric everyman to this Fawcett Gold Medal paperback collection, the cover showing a small, round-nosed caveman figure slumped wearily between oversized stone letters spelling "BC" — a perfectly self-aware visual gag that sells the title's melancholy humor before you've read a single strip. Hart's loose, expressive linework gives even the typography a rumpled, world-weary personality. If you've ever felt like the forgotten book on the bottom shelf, this 1978 collection is ready to commiserate.