'Mail-Order Mysteries' Book

'Mail-Order Mysteries' is a hardbound, 156 page book published by Insight Editions that reveals the novelties that were sold in vintage comic book advertisements. I generated all content under the art direction of Insight Editions- photography, copy, layout, cover design. -Ranked #9 in Hardcover Humor on the Wall Street Journal Bestsellers list -One of USA Today's best graphic books of 2011 -One of Washington Post's Best of 2011 picks Praise for 'Mail-Order Mysteries' "*****" [Five stars] —Amazon.com customers, 107 reviews “If childhood disappointment could ever be considered an art form, then Mail-Order Mysteries is a masterpiece. Really. The metaphors for life itself are inescapable, the disillusion heartbreakingly laid bare, the tackiness a drug you just can’t quit.” —Chip Kidd, graphic designer and author of Bat-Manga! “Mail-Order Mysteries reveals the secrets behind those too-good-to-be-true gizmos advertised in the comic books of my youth. What a mind-blower!” —Mark Frauenfelder, cofounder of Boing Boing For those who grew up in 1960s to the 1980s, MAIL-ORDER MYSTERIES is a perfect piece of nostalgia — plus, you don’t have to wait six to eight weeks for delievery. —Bruce Grossman Bookgasm.com "just as magical and weird as the goods it chronicles." —Comics Worth Reading “If I could put one thing in a time machine to send back to my eight-year-old self, it would be Mail-Order Mysteries. This book would have saved me dozens of allowances and hundreds of glacial hours spent standing on the porch waiting for the mailman to arrive. I always knew there was something fishy about those ‘Gigantic Dinosaurs!’” —Mark Waid, writer of Kingdom Come and Irredeemable Kirk Demarais has a great book called MAIL-ORDER MYSTERIES about ads from comic books! Legitimately fascinating and fun. —Tom Scharpling of The Best Show on WFMU "It is...genius." —NeedCoffee.com