I'm not normally a coffee table book person. They're big, they're expensive, and I usually think they're boring. For some reason, I had a thought the other day; what if there were coffee table art books on psychedelic art? They exist on every other subgenre. Why not my favorite? So I looked into it and found - while few, very few - there are a number of them. The below are the ones I found most interesting. While I'm definitely interested in Maison Assouline's line of books -

Dr. Strange is one of my long term artistic inspirations dating from childhood; the magical, mystical, psychedelic high-concept weirdness of the '70s comic books grabbed hold of my little tiny Pisces Moon self and never let go. I still love and am inspired by wild swirling patterns, fluorescent and neon colors, and things that glow as if lit from within. So when the movie came out in 2016, I was of course, very happy. And within the month, I was wandering the aisles of Joann

I'm a Columbo fan. I started watching in 2021 and saw every episode. In the Janet Leigh episode (Forgotten Lady, Season 5, Episode 1), she shoots her husband while he's in bed reading a book. The book becomes a bit of a plot point. Columbo takes it to a bookshop and asks about it (it's about an Irish housemaid who wins a sweepstakes, I think?). Point being: look at that cover. I like it. Look at that title. Totally should have been a real book. Also, there's a song!...