Dinomania: The Lost Art of Winsor McCay, The Secret Origins of King Kong, and the Urge to Destroy New York

This single-issue Fantagraphics release from 2015 explores the enduring fascination with colossal creatures and urban destruction, tracing a line from Winsor McCay's early comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend through the cultural impact of King Kong. Anchored by McCay's own original artwork and writing, the book examines how these primal fantasies of chaos and scale have echoed through popular imagination. It matters as a compact, scholarly yet visually rich meditation on a recurring theme in comics and cinema.