I rarely post compilation album covers in this space but this Slim Gaillard album features an illustration by the great Joe Sacco with text by Harvey Pekar. Take a Pekar at their work:
Sacco and Pekar also did a booklet for this Verve compilation. Here’s a sample:
Here’s the title track. Dig that crazy Groove Juice image.
Love this record and the comic inside, but the cover illustration is by David Stone Martin. (I think it’s repurposed from another Slim Gaillard record.)
You’re the third reliable source to provide a different answer who the artist is. I’m moving on.