Brian Blomerth's Lilly Wave -- Brian Blomerth

<p><strong>A visual biography of the infamous ketamine researcher John C. Lilly.</strong><br></p><p><strong><br></strong></p><p>Since 2019, graphic novelist Brian Blomerth's stunningly original comix histories have combined detailed research and riotous visual wit to illuminate the discovery of LSD (in <i>Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day</i>) and the popularization of psilocybin mushrooms (in Brian Blomerth's <i>Mycelium Wassonii</i>). Now, in the third entry in his ongoing series, Blomerth opens a porthole on the life, experiments, and addictions of John C. Lilly--the man whose development of the isolation tank, controversial studies in dolphin cognition, and ketamine-fueled dives into the nature of consciousness made him perhaps the most notorious researcher of the psychedelic era. Featuring alien visitations, interspecies encounters, and no shortage of concerned onlookers, <i>Brian Blomerth's Lilly Wave</i> sees a beloved artist working from an expanded palette of industrial ink-splatter and oceanic airbrushing to bring readers a story that's equal parts cosmic and paranoid, transcendent and tragic.<br></p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Brian Blomerth<br><b>Publisher:</b> Anthology Editions<br><b>Published:</b> 10/29/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 220<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781944860523<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Brian Blomerth</b> is an illustrator, cartoonist and musician based in Brooklyn whose previous publications include the wildly popular visual his