![]() No one else in the classic-rock canon has conjured a more vivid cast of rogues and heroes, creeps and schmucks, lovers and dreamers and cold-blooded operators-or imbued their characters with so much humanity. "Steely Dan's songs are exercises in fictional world-building. All of it is refracted through the perspectives of the characters themselves, making for a musical companion unlike any other. Artist Joan LeMay has crafted lively, color-saturated images of her favorite characters from the Daniverse to accompany writer Alex Pappademas's explorations of the famous and obscure songs that inspired each painting, in short essays full of cultural context, wild speculation, inspired dot-connecting, and the occasional conspiracy theory. ![]() Quantum Criminals is a collection of stories and drawings about songs that are drawn-out stories, illustrations that "present the world of Steely Dan as it has never been seen, much less heard. ![]()
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