As I'm leaving the section to go look for something in the fiction section my eye catches a quick glimpse of a rather thick volume with a familiar name emblazoned thereon. Dig it:
I already knew that Zak S., the criminal mastermind behind DnD with Porn Stars (NSFW, duh) and "I Hit It With My Axe", was a serious artist by day. And I already knew that he had done a series of works, one for each page of Gravity's Rainbow, that was something of a hit in the art world. But I didn't know he had a book deal or that the book had reached the provincial backwaters of central Illinois where on online friend of his could stumble across a copy. The world is full of strange connections. Even finding this work in the funny book section is a bit of a puzzler, because as far as I can tell this isn't graphical fiction in any sense. It looks to me like one would need a copy of Pynchon's novel to make narrative sense of the images.
So I checked out Zak's book and Gravity's Rainbow. I need two more 700+ books on my reading list like I need another hole in my head, but I think sometimes you need to listen to the signals the universe sends you.
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