Gag on This: The Scrofulous Cartoons of Charles Rodrigues #[nn]

The cover of this 2015 Fantagraphics collection announces its own audacity with cheerful self-awareness — declaring in bold type that its cartoons are "too filthy and degenerate to display on this cover," while a black-and-white photo of Charles Rodrigues himself stands alongside the text, hands in pockets, looking perfectly composed and unrepentant. It's a wonderfully deadpan bit of packaging that sets the tone for what promises to be a substantial gathering of Rodrigues's wickedly transgressive cartoon work. At $34.99, this is a generous slab of gleefully scrofulous humor from one of underground cartooning's sharpest and most subversive voices.