The Gaze of Drifting Skies: A Treasury of Bird's-Eye View Cartoons

Edited by Jonathan Barli. Published by Fantagraphics. 

Hardcover, 176 pages, B&W and Colour, 1900s-1940s (2016 printing)

This book collects vintage overhead crowd scenes, once a staple of cartooning.

Depicting the bustling crowds of humanity from magisterial heights was once a popular visual genre among artists and the public, regularly appearing in mass-market newspapers and magazines: carnivals and circuses, cook-outs and baseball games, bustling city streets and train stations or parades and epic battle scenes... artists depicted the everyday life of urban and country settings where communities gathered for fun and revelry. Adults and children alike could spend hours delighting in the details of these marvelously orchestrated scenes of human bustle. This coffee-table collection showcases the remarkable beauty and breadth of these forgotten American classics.

Featuring the art of:
6-7 Will Crawford
8-9: Richard Doyle
10: J.N. "Ding" Darling
11-13: Horace Taylor
14: F.M. Follett
15-21: Johnny Gruelle
22-23: Horace Taylor
24: George Shanks
25: Sweigert (top) Frank King (bottom)
26: Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman
27: Fred Richardson
28: Sweigert (top), C.G. Bush (bottom)
29: Arthur Lewis (top), C.G. Bush (bottom)
30: Dudley Fisher
31: Harrison Cady
32: H.A. Petersen
33: Tony Sarg
34-35: Herb Roth
36: Horace Taylor
37: Johnny Gruelle
38: H.A. Petersen
39: Dudley Fisher
40-41: John T. McCutcheon
42: Johnny Gruelle
43: Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman
44-45: Johnny Gruelle
46: Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman
47: George Shanks
48-49: H.A. Petersen
50-52: Harrison Cady
53: Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman
54: Ray C. Bell
56: Dudley Fisher
57: Horace Taylor
58-59: Henry "Hy" Mayer
60-65: Harry Grant Dart
66: Jonny Gruelle
67-69: Tony Sarg
70: C. W. Kahles
72: Harrison Cady
73: Alban B. Butler
74: John Held, Jr.
75-76: George Shanks
77: H.C. Greening
78: Henri Zislin
79: Abian "Wally" Wallgren
80: Alban B. Butler
81: Chares Forbell
82: H.M. Bateman
84-87 Ricardo Opisso
88-95: Albert Dubout
96-97: Rowland Emett
98-104: Garrido
106: Milt Gross
107-109: Gluyas Williams
110-111: Russell Patterson
112-113: Virgil Partch
114: Willard Mullin
116-119: Harrison Cady
120-123: Theodor Seuss Geisel
124-125: Walt Kuhn
126: Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman
127-128: Arch Dale
130-131: Frederick Opper
132-135: Walt McDougall
136: Johnny Gruelle
137: Tony Sarg
138-139: Will Crawford
140-141: John Held, Jr.
142: Will Crawford
143-150: Harrison Cady
151: Johnny Gruelle
152-153: Will Crawford
154: Antonio Rubino
155: Harrison Cady
156-160: John Held, Jr.
161-163: Russell Patterson
164: Fontaine Fox
165: Gluyas Williams
166-169: Dudley Fisher
170: William Donahey
171: James Swinnerton
172: Johnny Gruelle
173-176: Harrison Cady