For a dozen years, Cecil Jensen created a comic strip called "Little Debbie." It had once been known as “Elmo”—one of the darkest and wildest strips ever made. In the summer of 1960, the 58 year-old journeyman brought Elmo and his weird world back into the strip for a final hurrah that is among comics’ greatest surprises!"The Second Coming of Elmo" gathers the final 13 months of Jensen’s comic strip, which appeared in a handful of newspapers and was on its last legs. In the 1950s, Jensen often used a ghost artist and, though inspiration still struck him with the strip, he seemed adrift. The revival of Elmo Chuckle, Commodore Bluster, Popnut Skrummies and the dark, droll hi-jinks that distinguished the strip’s original 1946-48 run, inspired Jensen anew. He took full control of the strip. Once again, Elmo got away from the cartoonist, but he rallied again for one of the most bizarre, satirical and touching finales of any comic strip, past, present or future!An introductory essay by Eisner Award-winning comics creator and historian Frank M. Young sets the stage for this remarkable final act, which has as its prelude 100 hand-picked “Little Debbie” daily strips from the Elmo-less years, which shows that Jensen’s weird wit hadn’t abandoned him.This 236-page sequel to the acclaimed "Elmo: An American Experiment" also explores Cecil Jensen's 50 years of editorial cartooning, including the first-ever gathering of the 36 "Adventures of Col. M'Cosmic" strips that declared war on rival Chicago media mogul Robert R. McCormick. These seldom-seen cartoons are the zenith of Jensen's graphic skill, and their historical and political references are explained--although the series is a riot with or without context!This smorgasbord of Cecil Jensen's work will be followed by a volume of the political cartoons he created in the heyday of "Elmo" (1946-1948). Overlooked and under-appreciated in his time, Cecil Jensen's work makes complete (non)sense in the 21st century.