CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/6/2023

Peculiar beasts in 'Jon Huck: At the Drop of a Hat'

Featured spreads are from Jon Huck: At the Drop of a Hat, the first book to collect the Los Angeles artist’s enigmatic and somehow wistful watercolors. It’s hard to explain what makes Huck’s portraits so compelling. But if you like cats, friendly beasts, kids in costumes, birds, bears, octopi or humans adrift on this planet, this book is for you. In the absence of any mystery-busting text in the book, we consulted the artist’s website. Among the sparse details, we can report that he enjoys “swimming, cats, the library and going out to breakfast.”