Cartoons by George Price

A single 1945 issue from Superior Reprints and Military Service Publishing Co., Cartoons by George Price collects the New Yorker cartoonist's signature, deadpan single-panel gags into a compact, laugh-until-you-wince paperback. George Price, the sole writer and artist, fills the book with his trademark anxious, bulbous-nosed characters navigating everyday absurdities—a style that would define a generation of magazine humor. Though it's a one-shot, this collection offers an early concentrated dose of Price's wonderfully off-kilter worldview.