Al Jaffee Goes Bananas #AE2201

Al Jaffee's singular brand of absurdist wit takes center stage in this 1983 Signet collection, where the cover — drawn entirely by Jaffee himself — features a grinning, bug-eyed character whose hair is an enormous bunch of bananas, perfectly capturing the gleeful silliness promised by the subtitle "…and Other Bunches of Appeeling Humor." The pun-forward presentation sets the tone immediately: this is a book that commits fully to its own ridiculousness and is proud of it. At $2.25, it's a delightful snapshot of Jaffee's effortlessly loose, expressive cartooning style in full, fruit-forward form.