A one-eyed Jazz Age artist eludes suicide (unlike his perfect model) and, haunted by this nude muse, clings to a 50-year rollercoaster of elation and despair. From rugged Oregon to silent Hollywood to bustling NYC's skyscraper canyons he befriends John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Tina Modotti, world-famous mentalist Joseph Dunninger, John Carradine, and even a teenage Bob Dylan. This historical novel weaves a tapestry of whimsey and irony (a la G.K. Chesterton) into... a curious account? A peculiar portrayal? A mysterious 'memoir'? All of that... and then some! Watch the droll master illustrator reveal 'himself' in 60 chapters and dozens of audacious and impudent pictures and drawings.

A one-eyed Jazz Age artist evades suicide (unlike his perfect model) and, haunted by his muse, clings to a 50-year rollercoaster of successes and failures. From big timber Oregon to silent Hollywood to New York City publishing canyons, he befriends John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie, Tina Modotti, world-famous mentalist Joseph Dunninger, even a teenage Bob Dylan. This historical fiction has a healthy dose of whimsey (a la G.K. Chesterton). A curious account? A peculiar portrayal? A mysterious "memoir"? It's all here... and then some! Known as The Man Who Drew Women, the droll master illustrator, Mahon Blaine, is revealed in 60 chapters and 100 select-and-rare pictures and drawings.

1) Posteriority, 1968; 2) Such a Good Boy 1899; 3) Great Big Drawing, 1903; 4) Employability, 1912; 5) Bohemia, Bigin, Bosom Buddies, 1916; 6) A Portland Spectator, 1919; 7) Mr. Lampman, 1934; 8) Fractured Refraction, 1910; 9) Tina Appears Friendly, 1921; 10) Jake Brussel, 1940; 11) The Budding of Miss Flowers, 1922; 12) Marjorie's Masks, 1923; 13) John Chapter One, 1925; 14) Young Conklin, 1926; 15) New Day New Model, 1926; 16) Getting It Together in NYC, 1926; 17) The Goat's Foot, 1968; 18) Whither My Wife, 1968; 19) Joe Offers Life, 1941; 20) Migraine, 1942; 21) In the Briggs', 1952; 22) How Many So Far? 1968 23) Coney Island Photos, 1950; 24) Little Bernice's Fern, 1932; 25) They Ain't Pretty, 1968; 26) Minna Meant Well, 1948; 27) She Snuck Out, 1947; 28) Lucy Loved Cyclopes, 1947; 29) Never Sent, 1941; 30) Again, With the Headache, 1959; 31) It Is Work, 1968; 32) Mentalist Mansion, 1962; 33) What Amusement, 1950; 34) That Poughkeepsie Caper, 1943; 35) Paranoia? 1946; 36) Good Doctor Crandell, 1940; 37) Vice Versa Too, 1968; 38) Dean Collins Naps, 1953; 39) Groff and On Again, 1937; 40) Desert Coyote Dreams, 1948; 41) Fool's Folly, 1925; 42) Calligraphy, 1944; 43) Crap By Any Other Name, 1958; 44) Itty Bitty Sea Ditty, 1968; 45) G Legman. 1937; 46) Decency Dilemma, 1932; 47) Dunninger's Second Story, 1967; 48) Sam Hated My Uncle, 1939; 49) The City, Car, and Close Call, 1938; 50) Shparklling Chrystal, 1933; 51) Travels With Steinbeck, 1968; 52) The Guitar Kid's Mission, 1961; 53) Burroughs Books, 1962; 54) Carradine the Thespian, 1932; 55) If Betty Were Here Tonight, 1916; 56) Goodbye Washington Square, 1966; 57) Review View 1963; 58) A Child Asleep, 1925; 59) To Bernita, 1951; 60) A Dangling Conversation, 1967