Brian Blomerth's Bicycle Day

Illustrator, musician and self-described “comic stripper” Brian Blomerth has spent years combining classic underground art styles with his bitingly irreverent visual wit in zines, comics, and album covers. With Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, the artist has produced his most ambitious work to date: a historical account of the events of April 19, 1943, when Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann ingested an experimental dose of a new compound known as lysergic acid diethylamide and embarked on the world’s first acid trip. Combining an extraordinary true story told in journalistic detail with the artist’s gritty, timelessly Technicolor comix style, Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day is a testament to mind expansion and a stunningly original visual history.

• Pierrot Alterations
• High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (The MIT Press)
• We Ate the Acid
• Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game
• Kramers Ergot 10 (Kramers Ergot)
• Bad Gateway
• Motel Universe
• City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (New York Trilogy)
• Ice Haven (Pantheon Graphic Library)
• The Castafiore Emerald (Adventures of Tintin (Paperback))