Poor Helpless Comics!: The Cartoons (And More) of Ed Subitzky

Ed Subitzky’s Poor Helpless Comics! collects decades of his absurdist, single-panel cartoons and longer comic strips, originally published in National Lampoon and other outlets. This 2023 NYRB Comics volume gathers the artist’s trademark deadpan humor and surreal observations into a single, essential archive. Subitzky’s work, with its clean line and off-kilter sensibility, stands as a key link between 1970s counterculture comedy and the modern alt-comics sensibility.