Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception #2

GT Labs' Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception is a 2007 graphic work about the art and artifice of stage magic, written by Jim Ottaviani with art and inks by Janine Johnston. The cover, rendered entirely by Johnston, draws you into a richly atmospheric theatrical scene — a woman in white appears to float above a stage while three tuxedoed magicians look on, playing cards and small red devil figures swirling around them, with a bespectacled young man in the foreground reaching toward the viewer. It's a genuinely evocative image that captures the wonder and sleight-of-hand at the heart of the story.