MascotsThe second book from Ray Fenwick, author of 2008's acclaimed Hall of Best Knowledge. In Mascots, a collection of impressionistic stories combine to create a wildly absurd yet vaguely familiar parallel world. Like Fenwick's previous work, the acclaimed Hall of Best Knowledge (one of Booklist's "Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2008"), Mascots is driven by lettering and language, part art and part comics, this time taking the form of bright, full color

'53 Chevy panel "Tiki Customs"

And what kid doesn't love animal crackers

with straight biographies and Mad magazine-styled parodies

Haunting paintings

Dispelling a few common myths along the way

cartoon master Justin Green depicts the lives of some of music's most outrageous legends

Many of the recordings feature cello player Arthur Russell (known for his 1970's Flying Hearts band and his ground-breaking 1980's solo recordings)

Georges Remi

captions in French

product design and writing are collaged together to create a blueprint for Hodgson's world of mania

there are the fans

expressing the skin and ink of their tattoos in his five-year concept exploration