Brian Blomerth's Mycelium Wassonii

Author: Brian Blomerth 
In Mycelium Wassonii, Brian Blomerth presents (in his singularly irreverent underground comix style) an account of the lives of R. Gordon and Valentina Wasson, the pioneering scientist couple responsible for popularising the use of psychedelic mushrooms in the US. A globetrotting vision of science and mysticism with appearances by J.P. Morgan, Robert Graves, Life Magazine, and the CIA, the book is a visual biography and a tragic love story as only Blomerth’s Isograph pen can render it.The Wassons’ journeys took them from Russian folk wisdom to midcentury Manhattan, from the indigenous traditions of the Mazatec people of Mexico to the mysteries of ancient Rome. Blomerth first fused his singularly irreverent underground comix style with heavily-researched history in 2019’s Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Day, a Technicolor retelling of the discovery of LSD, and with this book continues his wild and woolly excursions into the history of mind expansion.