Al Jaffee's Mad (Yeech!) Rejects #14 (35978)

Al Jaffee's signature wit is on full display in this 1990 Warner Books paperback collection, where the cover itself sets the tone perfectly: a hapless, wide-eyed figure tumbles headfirst out of the MAD Editors' doorway, surrounded by a flurry of rejected submissions raining down all around him. Jaffee's cartooning captures the gleeful humiliation of the reject pile with that loose, rubbery expressiveness that made him a MAD mainstay for decades. If you've ever wondered what ideas were too outrageous even for MAD, this collection promises a delightfully irreverent peek behind the door.