The Gaze of Drifting Skies: A Treasury of Bird's-Eye View Cartoons Thomas Toye By Donna Deitch

By Donna Deitch

complete with circus acrobats

McCutcheon

" - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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

The Gaze of Drifting Skies: A Treasury of Bird's-Eye View Cartoons Thomas Toye By Donna DeitchEdited 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