Mad's Al Jaffee Freaks Out

A short-lived Warner Books series collecting the absurdist, single-panel gag cartoons that Al Jaffee produced for Mad magazine, Mad's Al Jaffee Freaks Out ran from 1982 to 1989. These paperbacks gathered Jaffee’s signature brand of surreal, often wordless visual humor—featuring his trademark fold-ins and bizarre scenarios—into themed volumes. Though not a traditional comic series with ongoing issues, it preserved the work of one of Mad’s most inventive and long-running contributors for a new generation of readers.