The Gaze of Drifting Skies: A Treasury of Bird's-Eye View Cartoons Thomas Toye Archer abruptly leaves

Archer abruptly leaves

Manjit Thapp’s distinctive use of space and color exquisitely explores what it means to be a self

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The Golden Twine is hard to put down

By Donna Deitch

The Gaze of Drifting Skies: A Treasury of Bird's-Eye View Cartoons Thomas Toye Archer abruptly leavesEdited by Jonathan Barli. Published by Fantagraphics. Hardcover, 176 pages, B&W and Colour, 1900s 1940s (2016 printing) This book collects vintage overhead crowd scenes, once a staple of cartooning. Depicting the bustling crowds of humanity from magisterial heights was once a popular visual genre among artists and the public, regularly appearing in mass market newspapers and magazines: carnivals and circuses, cook outs and baseball games, bustling