From My Bookshelf

This week I’m delving into the visual arts.
Chromaphile by Ragnar
Brandon Ragnar Johnson lives here in SoCal, and he’s a fine artist in the digital medium. He does a lot of work locally for House of Secrets (you may have seen some hanging on the wall on Big Bang Theory), and for local bands. This is the first of his three collections of art. He's like a modern Toulouse Lautrec, except not nearly as short.

Daydreams and Nightmares: the Fantastic Visions of Winsor McCay from Fantagraphics Books. Winsor McCay produced some of the best illustrations I’ve ever seen, and he did it one hundred years ago. A favorite of William Randolph Hearst, McCay’s ‘Little Nemo’ ran in Hearst papers for decades. This is not the newspaper-sized collection of Nemo Sunday strips, this is a collection that includes editorial cartoons, daily strips, and 'illustrated sermons.'