elder's advertising art, caricatures, cartoons, illustrations and stories were collected in the 392-page career retrospective, "will elder: the mad playboy of art" (fantagraphics, 2003; ). the follow-up book, "chicken fat" (also by fantagraphics), was published in 2006 and compiles drawings, sketches, cartoons and doodles by elder, most of which had never been published. in 2009, fantagraphics published a complete boxed collection of "humbug".