Droodles

The general form is minimal: a square box containing a few abstract pictorial elements with a caption (or several) giving a humorous explanation of the picture's subject.

[3] Droodles are (or were) purely a form of entertainment like any other nonsense cartoon and appeared in roughly the same places (newspapers, paperback collections, bathroom walls) during their heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.

[1] One of Price's original Droodles serves as the cover art for Frank Zappa's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch.

In the classic book The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, a notable Droodle appears as part of one of the most iconic illustrations in the work.

By the end of Roberto Bolaño's long novel The Savage Detectives the mysterious works by the lost poetess Cesárea Tinajero turn out to be a short series of Mexican culture visual puns, similar to Price's Droodles.

Four elephants examine an orange or a dead point position by a billiard game
Aerial view of a cowboy in a Port-a-john