Sad Sack

A gentle, long-running British reprint series from Thorpe & Porter, Sad Sack collected the best of the classic, wordless gag strips originally created by George Baker for the US military's Yank magazine. Running for 10 issues beginning in 1973, these digest-sized comics followed the eternally put-upon, hapless private through the endless absurdities of army life. While Baker's original wartime work is legendary, this series helped introduce a new generation to the character's timeless, slapstick humor. It stands as a charming, compact archive of one of the most beloved cartoon soldiers in comic history.