Hamburger Madness

If you don't know who Jack Ziegler is--AND if you love crazed surrealism in your cartoons a la Kliban--this is for you, bud. Freud said jokes are funny because in going from point A to point C, the A to B segment is what we expect, but then the B to C segment is a skewed version of what we expect, and that skewing is what throws us off balance, causing a small shock to the system, resulting in laughter.Ziegler's B to C segments are so skewed that the laughter is inevitable. All I can say is, pick up a Jack Ziegler book and you won't be sorry. Great stuff to get you through those tough times, like, you know--no job. No girlfriend. No visible means of support. Like that. At least you can laugh.Right?

These cartoons are someplace between the run-of-the-New-Yorker and dada. He takes everyday people and objects and just twists them off-center and almost every one of them is hilarious.Find it. Buy it.