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"These should appear in the New Yorker!" declared one person reviewing the 36 cartoons in this collection. As for me, I could hardly act as the judge of my own work and all I can say is that the themes you will find in ABSURD! are quite different from those in magazines and ebooks that are currently around. Many cartoon collections focus on a single theme such as sex, office, business, sports, politics, and the like. This collection of cartoons centers on no particular subject; but rather, it walks the reader through a constantly changing scenery of topics. Funny events can be drawn from a host of situations besides those just listed and humor is at home in odd, surreal, weird setups, in trite sayings, or in unusual juxtapostions of images. These are the sources of the crazy topics that ABSURD! offers to its viewers. Some themes in ABSURD! reach into the darker side, like Calling Belzebub, or Dr. Dracula, or the Witches' airport. Some belong with the raunchy kind, like the Toilet freshener or Metriculating; some deal with dumb mistakes, like Privacy, or Jugglers, or Parasite Island. Verbal play brings humor to Half baked and to Ministores. You will also meet weird characters, as in Around, or the the lone man in Crazy idea delivering a public speech in the desert. Other cartoons work on clichéd expressions, such as Lost in a haystack or Aggravation. Pothead and Cannibals feature unexpected scenarios.You will find graphic humor in E-leg-tric cars, and in Ejection seat, while some others draw on entertainment, as in the case of Gone with the Wind, or in the above mentioned Metriculation, which recalls a famous comic trio.