The Ganzfeld undertakes a mammoth exploration of art history in questionable taste. A special section is devoted to “artists on artists”, for which three generations–Peter Saul, Karl Wirsum, David Sandlin, and Marc Bell–drew stories about their influences: Salvador Dali, Dick Tracy, H.C. Westermann, and Philip Guston. Also featured is a lengthy, brilliantly funny examination of Led Zeppelin’s Presence album cover, and features on thrift store paintings, obscure animators, Renaissance inventions, not to mention projects by Paul Etienne Lincoln and Adam Dant, and the first publication of a series of string figures collected by Harry Smith, compiler of the American Anthology of Music, with a commentary by renowned Beat photographer John Cohen. The Ganzfeld 4 is also the first North American reprinting of work by Shigeru Sugiura. There are plenty of other comics by the likes of Leif Goldberg, Ted Stearn, C.F., Matthew Thurber, Paper Rad, and Jim Drain, as well as a 20-page suite of recent drawings by Gary Panter. Stunning covers by Julie Doucet.